skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of Matthew Rayfield's GPT work to generate Pokémon:
https://matthewrayfield.com/articles/ai-generated-pokemon-sp...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25152764
NYC and NY State are running TV ads reminding everyone to get tested often, because you can be contagious and asymptomatic and frequent testing helps detect that earlier.

I'm sure there is regional variability... but in at least some places, it seems like tests are indeed plentiful.

If I had to guess, the regions that have decided to handle the pandemic by largely doing nothing different than normal don't have great availability, but probably more for political reasons than logistical ones.
Is it https://wiby.me? If not, I'd love to know more!
That's my initial thought as well. Abstaining from sex (or contact in the context of the pandemic) is a near impossibility for mental health, societal/economic benefit, and just human nature, so it's better to teach how to do so safely.

I fear that there's a large subset of the population who won't follow safe practices unless you scare them with text like "don't visit your friends/family".
I find that to be almost entirely untrue. I am far more amazed by how long things I have written stay around. Websites I helped create in 2005, integrations that just hummed along without anyone paying attention to them for over 10 years, and tiny utility desktop apps that people just keep using 'cause they do the job. I've definitely decided that I'd better put some spit and polish on things because it almost certainly is going to last longer than I expect.
Exactly this. It’s one thing for local people to spread it from one to the other. But now you have a country wide super spreader event where you mix people from all over - either spreading virus to their relatives and their communities when visiting somewhere, or taking it back to their own communities after the thanksgiving. Just in time to do it all over again during Xmas, and then New Years.
They give folks on HN an opportunity for self promotion, what do you think will happen :)
How Facebook’s AI Tools Tackle Misinformation
The problem is Ruby itself.

Implicit return, whether you like it or not, is frankly a weird feature, and is sure to rub some people the wrong way.
It irritates me immensely that one cannot search for past posts in Facebook groups. I find that insane. I collect screenshots showing just how anti-utilitarian facebook is. It sucks the air out of the room.
Also an article on Vice: https://www.vice.com/en/article/93wbb3/this-ai-algorithm-gen...
The best I can do is intuit how he intuited these results. There is a certain feel to these infinite series patterns that I can see just “appearing” to a person immediately.
Even if you do, the tests aren't biased that way.

If the tests give you a positive result, you almost certainly have Covid. However, a negative result doesn't imply lack of Covid with the same accuracy.
You can do the math, take the GA Tech prevalence data and combine it with the false negative rate (has covid, tests negative).

If you want to go further, consider the time you will spend together in an indoor environment mask-less. I think there are some estimates of indoor transmission probabilities per time of exposure to a positive case.

Bear in mind the average 5-8 day incubation period so even if you test the day before you are still almost a week behind in exposures.

https://www.statnews.com/2020/08/20/covid-19-test-accuracy-s...
Depends on the region. Urban California, for instance, has high testing capacity. I get tested here in SF pretty often and any time I'll be hanging out with people.

Rural and semi-urban areas like SLO etc. are quite strapped on the other hand.

EDIT: See below, my info was out of date by a week. I would hypothesize it's everyone who wants to be tested for the holidays.
Obvious bias of the writer aside, it's kind of funny how this story is posted under the "If you're tired of cancel culture and censorship" banner, and yet the author doesn't mention Parler banning folks[1]. I guess the whole Lügenpresse sword cuts both ways.

1. https://www.newsweek.com/parler-ted-cruz-approved-free-speec...
All in all the changes seem like a good idea. I think the general public is usually frustrated by "missing out" on IPOs as they are gated to accredited investors/hedgefunds/VC funds. Having a monetary value gating entrance to be an accredited investor(assets over $1 not including house, or income over $300k for 3 consecutive years) seems exclusionary but it really shields the average public from getting pulled in by hucksters selling bad investments. Having these checks in place most times ensures that the person who invests in risky assets is informed and knows what they are doing. That being said people who match the requirements for a AC investor can and do make some really bad investments.
That seems like a good approach. Andy Slavitt's podcast had really good coverage of this recently: https://www.lemonadamedia.com/podcast/toolkit-how-to-stay-sa....
Armv8 instructions should be consistent between vendors. Gcc and llvm is very likely to produce standard armv8 code that is portable. At work we use intel chips to compile armv8 linux executables and librarys and run them on broadcom arm chips.
Idea: Commission them to investigate themselves and their source of funding so now you are the supporter
What did they do to the scrolling!
> you'd need to know the false-negative characteristics of the different tests that were used

Good point about this. Do we have enough data to compute this? my layman's guess is that if someone is asymptomatic and receives a negative test, they're not likely to follow it up with another test (which would be one way to learn the first test was a false-negative). But maybe there are other clever ways at getting at the false-negative rate for each type of test.
Exactly. You will have ridiculous deadlines, you will have to implement stuff in an extremely shitty way because you have no time for higher quality code, and you will spend the rest of your time there unfucking the code, or other people's code that has been made as quickly as possible because of deadlines, and this is just an example.

> I don't believe any company will give me a chance to write good, polished software.

I do not believe it either, especially due to my experiences. I do not work in IT for a reason.
I rest mine. From your history it seems like you only log on that account to post anti-Apple comments.
It is going to explode with the cold wheather - isn't it? Travel is already far lower than usual.
Only 3 pages are indexed on Google. Actually, most of the other legal databases (listed on info page) have their cases indexed on Google. However, judyrecords cases aren't indexed on Google. I understand your general sentiment.
I mean, it’s a little better because the danger window is 7 days instead of 14 days. A back of the envelope estimate would be that 2X people with clear coronavirus tests have equivalent risk of someone having coronavirus as X people who have had no testing.
The only other reason I can think of to use a service mesh is if you want to restrict which services can talk to each other. That's easier to do when centrally deployed via proxy configuration, though the building blocks are the same as what Kubernetes provides out of the box, so you could do that on your own. If you investigate that far, though, you're not installing service meshes due to hype, you're analyzing service meshes as a form of application architecture. Instead of deploying dependencies using language-specific tooling, you can deploy dependencies using Kubernetes and the network, with some overhead of course, and a lot of configuration-as-code. Parallels to "You don't need no service mesh" could also be drawn for things like the OpenTelemetry Collector or maybe projects like OpenPolicyAgent, or "Identity-Aware Proxies" and other cloud services -- including Kubernetes itself. In the end, all of these tools are generic enough that you can use them in many ways to save time -- but you don't have to, as this article points out, and it might not actually save you any time at all if your environment is small enough.
Got to disagree here, r/AskHistorians is a top-tier academically-minded Q&A forums, and their wiki is possibly one of the best resources on the current internet for layman interested in history. They are not necessarily the best Q&A resource (MathOverflow maybe?) but worth a mention. This is not to say AskHistorians is very forum-like, they now moderate the answers with the spirit of journal editor.

In general, there are good subreddits that sometimes develop community spirit. Unfortunately they are a fleeting phenomenon: either they grow too big, or die off (or in the rare case of AskHistorians, become something that can manage the flood), and if you don't find them by accident, it probable one heard about them because they are becoming too popular.
> Why on earth do we allow tuition money to be spent on anything else but full-time teaching staff?!

Because the culture of innovation that part-time researchers/part-time teacher bring is far more important to society in the long run than the short term gains gotten by full-time teaching staff.

Most fields in the world are rapidly changing, and what's taught in them changes every decade or so. Most full time teachers will atrophy because they don't have any real incentive to keep their knowledge and skills at the cutting edge. After a decade or so, your full time educational institute will be teaching worse than a research+teaching institute.
I wasn't aware of this trick, thank you for that. I guess if I have to implement another FIFO before const generics land I'll have an opportunity to try it out...
I think the concern is more about whether the negative leap second handling in all of the different, interacting NTP server implementations (which have never been exercised in the wild) will be good, bad or ugly.

If you read around the topic, there was plenty of non-conformance for the relatively recent leap seconds.

As you say, clock skewing happens continuously in NTP so that part looks proven.
Yeah, that's where my family landed. 2 week strict quarantine for everyone, then you can get a little slice of normal.
Most likely, just like the asdf occurrences.
What does page experience mean?
At every (software) job I've ever had-- spending any sort of money was nearly impossible but I had free range to use open source software.

Thus most of our tooling ended up being open source.
The video was absolutely amazing. I’ve watched it at 1x speed and don’t feel like I wasted a single second of my life. This used to happen approximately never with videos.
We were on the fence. Up until recently our local area has been only lightly affected by covid. It wasn't the decree from the governor that made us decide not to go, however, it was the big surge in cases. No need to be part of that mess, thanksgiving will still be here next year. And this year we're going to use a Zoom call to get everyone together while we eat :)
Hello ad blocker my old friend

I've come to enable you again

Because an ad softly shouting

Left its seeds while I was watching

And the headache, that was planted in my brain... still remains

Within the sound of content

In restless dreams of unskippable ads I walked alone.

Narrow windows of portrait mode

Neath the halo of dark mode

I turned my brightness to the cold and damp

When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon ad

That split the night

And touched the sound, of content.
This came out of a practical problem: at Spotify, Andreas couldn't let any data leave their network. He wasn't going to go through procurement to buy an enterprise version of one of those products, so his only option left was open source software.

But it's also out of principle: we think such a foundational thing needs to be open source. There is a reason most people use Git and not Perforce.

Replicate can work alongside visualization tools -- your data is safe in your own S3 bucket, but you can use the hosted visualization tool to complement that.

You could also imagine visualization tools built on top of Replicate. One thing we've been thinking about is doing visualization inside notebooks. It's like a programmable Tensorboard: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/18sVRE4Zi484G2rBeOYj...

I'd be curious to hear your thoughts about that. It's pretty primitive so far, but we've got to start somewhere I suppose. :)
Most YT videos have transcriptions generated for them, maybe instead of wading through the video itself, you can skim the transcript?
That's normal. My i9 does the same. It is heavily, heavily reliant on turbo boost for performance and regularly boosts up to 80W (!!!).

As soon as the last kinks are ironed out for M1 there's no reason imo to use the Intel Macs ever again.
It's the year for hindsight
It's from https://www.mississippifreepress.org/7014/after-big-thanksgi... which was paraphrasing the Mississippi State Medical Association president, "We don’t really want to see Mamaw at Thanksgiving and bury her by Christmas" and "You’re going to say hi at Thanksgiving, it’s so nice to see you, and you’re either going to be visiting her by Facetime in the ICU or planning a small funeral by Christmas".

This was qualified with "we're going to see some of that" but if it's not getting the desired reaction, they will probably continue to ramp up the inflammatory imagery.
Ubuntu Web Remix is a Linux distro that puts Firefox front and center
Why is x86 waste? It was beating everything on the market during the 90s and 2000s no? Its just intel hasn't pushed things forward in 10 years right?
Everybody in America knows that it's a bad idea to invest your retirement savings at the casino, and most people don't know that about arbitrary securities.
What Fauci said that one time was taken out of context by all the anti-mask idiots (and propagated by Trump himself).

Fauci has corrected it multiple times after and said that yes you should wear masks.

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/05/outdated-fauci-video-on-fa...

And comparing the CDC to a street drug dealer is beyond asinine.
Spot on. If your social circle already includes your family because you live one town over, feel free to have family thanksgiving with that limited social circle (so don't invite your grandparents from hours away, unless you call all afford to isolate for 1-2 weeks in advance!).

If you live in California and your family is in New Hampshire, please don't hop on a plane, risking infection, and potentially spread COVID from your social circle in California to your family's in New Hampshire.

Unfortunately, the combination of humans being bad at following instructions, folks being tired of COVID, and the high levels of stress this year are probably going to result in a lot of folks doing exactly this kind of stupid thing. I really wish we could close the airports for the week of Thanksgiving (refunding all flights that week) to give people a push towards responsibility, because they likely won't do it themselves.
Condoms are 95% effective.

Masks are only 60%. The only methodology that's anywhere close to 95% effective is a vaccine. Furthermore, you can't wear a mask while eating, and its too cold outside now to hold an outdoor dinner.

If you have a combination of methodologies that reaches 95% efficacy, feel free to tell the world. But mask-up, social distanced (6-feet apart) and all that is only partially effective at controlling the virus. And such conditions are unlikely to be kept during a Thanksgiving party (especially if alcohol is involved)
Enable Multithreaded recalculation in Excel to use up to 1024 concurrent threads
This particular school had a really weird thing where freshmen moved in and then went back home and came back a few days later, which seems like the worst possible idea. But, they've done in-person, on-campus classes for the whole semester and COVID hasn't been a disaster for either the student body or the surrounding town, so?
Maybe the situation varies greatly in different areas, but we haven't been to the grocery store since March. We order deliveries from the regional chain and they can generally be scheduled just a few days out from when you order
Except Trump got record reelection votes. There were slightly more for the other guy.

It would be folly to underestimate how much support Trump has in this country.

This was no clear win -- we are very much a country divided.
All of the major airlines are offering full credits for money spent on flights. In some cases, "non-refundable" tickets are actually fully refundable in cash.

People cancel "plans" all the time.
Given the wealth of browser-based coding tools available today it's only a matter of time before you can actually be productive as a dev on a Chromebook or arbitrary machine with a web browser and nothing installed locally. Git is an obvious missing gaping hole in that ecosystem.
Open Source. All or Nothing
Generally I think many YT creators have multiple sources of income (ads, Patreon, merch, sponsored vids)--as such they have many "customers". It's their distribution channel that's locked up.
How to use Serializers in the Django Python web framework
It's not just the re-order buffer, the M1 also has 8-way decode (vs 4-way for Intel & AMD microarchitectures), and a 128 KiB L1D cache (vs 48 recently from Intel, and 32 from AMD), and that cache still has a 3-cycle latency. These all let an M1 chip keep up in single-threaded workloads @ 3.2 GHz with what the latest Zen 3 5950X can do @ 5.0 GHz.
Six easy and not-so-easy AI pieces
Totally broke my workflow: https://xkcd.com/1172/
> natural persons holding in good standing one or more professional certifications or designations or other credentials from an accredited educational institution

You cut off the critical second half of that statement, which significantly changes the meaning:

> natural persons holding in good standing one or more professional certifications or designations or other credentials from an accredited educational institution that the Commission has designated as qualifying an individual for accredited investor status

If you think the SEC would add DDS to that list, I'm not sure why you would trust them to regulate investing at all.
RIP El Radar
Yeah, you missed my point. In fairness, I didn't make it super clear for you.
I’m a game developer. I want macOS to not suck for games. Apple and Nvidia have never gotten along for a variety of reasons.

Apple will probably continue to offer shitty GPUs in their MacBooks. That’s fine and maybe even a smart business choice.

But it means mac continues to suck for games. Which is unfortunate imho.

I think we can all agree it would be very interesting to see how much GPU power they can stuff in an iMac Pro and desktop class Mac Pro. If it doesn’t make business sense then so be it.

Realistically I’m hoping in 5 years that Nvidia releases a high-end integrated SoC. Tegra on Switch is fine. Keep it going.
Sonnen launches all-in-one affordable home battery system
In January 2020 China blocked Chinese New year travel for 1 billion people.

To this day, it amazes me that some people don't get that a nationwide travel and dine with a lot of people, could exponentially spread the virus.

We are almost 1 year later... And I think most people are here are well educated.

This saddens me deeply.
HN has exactly the same groupthink hostility against countervailing views. The only difference between FB and HN is that HN groupthink enforcement is depersonalized and hidden behind the downvoting and flagging system, both to keep abusive people from needing to spend the time writing ad hominem replies, and to keep the ugliness out of sight from the casual observer.

Pay close attention to what gets downvoted and/or flagged in threads about social media regulation, disinformation on the Internet, COVID-19--or anything else that touches the glibertarian worldview generally--to see what I mean.

HN policies just convert the level of hostility that is typical of under-regulated message boards from overt hostility into passive aggressive sniping and mechanized bullying.

This post itself will be downvoted in due course, because it goes against HN's own accepted narrative.
Email lists too. Bravo https://www.freelists.org/.
> I get tested here in SF pretty often and any time I'll be hanging out with people

Given the time it takes from exposure to symptoms and tests register it, isn't that kind of a false sense of security? Exposed on sunday - takes a test thursday that's negative - hangs out with friends on friday, kinda deal.
It will honestly be the best Christmas present I could have asked for
Do you have any source on how they distribute payments? All I can find is this blurb which could be read lots of different ways (likely by design):

"Currently, new revenue from YouTube Premium membership fees is distributed to video creators based on how much members watch your content. As with our advertising business, most of the revenue will go to creators."

I support some creators via Patreon as well, but honestly that's just more work for me as my interests change and some months I don't consume any of their content.

I imagine the truth is that it is likely something Spotify-like or some variation thereof. I'm still ok with that and YouTube does make it explicit that the majority of my sub goes towards creators. FWIW I suspect there are some reasons that are subtle, bug valid, that Spotify for example distributes subscription fees the way it does, which I agree does seem kinda BS at first blush.

edit: some anecdotal info here saying that creators are indeed paid (handsomly) based on views:
https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/9agg5f/how_does_yo...
No. By definition, if you overestimate yourself, you don't have impostor syndrome in that particular discipline.
> but I suppose it would at least give _some_ support to their case when other relatives complain about them not attending/hosting Thanksgiving this year (whether or not it satisfies those relatives).

Messaging is important. It irritates me to no end that newscasters aren't wearing masks--for example. There are a lot of people who are "Oh, the lady on TV is wearing a mask--so I guess it's bad enough that I should, too."
That's a good point, and I hope this is the case. It just seems that, as with many things these days, people I've encountered are so set in their opinions that contrary messages from anyone, even (or especially) an authority, wouldn't change anything for them. But I hope you're right.
So wafer scale integration it's back
I think this issue has been so downplayed and politicised in the US that such a move is now essentially unthinkable.

You can see that in some of the rather predictable responses you've received. Of course, I don't think you literally mean "close all airports" – rather, a move to temporarily ban nonessential long-distance travel, which is a pretty normal tool that you'd expect to use to tackle a pandemic.

I'm in England just now—hardly the poster child for excessive restrictions–and pretty extensive limitations apply for the next two weeks for travel and gathering. This isn't anything that anybody particularly wants, but it definitely feels that the country has collectively shat itself to a lesser extent.
Remember that your code needs to account for the possibility of a negative leap second, meaning if you're using epoch time for timestamps you could have an instance that an event that happened after a previous one could be stamped as having happened before it instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second

Edit: Actually I was slightly wrong, in the event of a leap second, we would repeat the same second twice.
8 hours in a large, ventilated space, everyone wearing masks, limited/no physical contact, generally brief interactions usually from a safe distance

vs

Thanksgiving aka the exact opposite of all of the above
In 2005 I had to fill in a form to request a page size exception for our election results map on the BBC News site. The page weight was going to be just a little under 400kb. At the time the size considered acceptable for the whole page (images and all) was 75kb.