skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That Taiwan did not make the WHO aware.

Huh? Taiwan did make the WHO aware.

> That there is absolutely no remote possibility that prior to the 30th, anyone could possibly be talking about 'sars' in december, sorry 'atypical pneumonia', because it's not reported by the Times report or the WHO.

There is no public record about this novel coronavirus, later called Covid-19, prior to Dec 31 2019. China kept it under wraps. Wuhan doctors knew but they were not allowed to speak out. When they tried, they were detained and threatened with arrest.

Every report on the timeline of Covid-19 marks Dec 31 2019 as the start, because that's when news about it breached China's wall. Obviously the virus itself existed prior to that. The question is, what was known when, and who knew it. Elements of China knew prior to Dec 31 2019. It only became public after that as a result of Taiwan informing the WHO.

From The facts regarding Taiwan’s email to alert WHO to possible danger of COVID-19, [1]

> To be prudent, in the email we took pains to refer to atypical pneumonia, and specifically noted that patients had been isolated for treatment. Public health professionals could discern from this wording that there was a real possibility of human-to-human transmission of the disease.

The email text is in this Taipei Times article [2].

[1] https://www.cdc.gov.tw/En/Bulletin/Detail/PAD-lbwDHeN_bLa-vi...

[2] https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2020/04/12/2...
Fortran has certainly been very important but now people are building climate models faster in Julia and with better performance. Fortran used to be the only option for high performance numerical computing but that is no longer the case. For instance preliminary performance tests of BLAS rebuilt for Julia shows higher performance than the Fortran variants which have been tuned for decades.

Part of the reason Julia can do this is due to support for parametrized types and JIT compilation which I can make it possible to in-line a lot of code which you cannot inline with AOT compilation.
Well, my bad to have wasted your time with a silly discussion, then. I find it neither silly nor gain-less. I'm sorry that you feel differently.
How to Mint 1B+ NFT Images on the fly from iOS
> But coronavirus specifically does not spread like cigarette smoke. It was one of the models that turned out to be wrong.

Wait, I think your mental model is out of date. OP is all about how COVID-19 is indeed airborne [1] — i.e. it can float through air for considerable distances — and how it took a long time for WHO to correct its messaging. I guess this is case-in-point on how initial public messaging can be really hard to correct later on, and needs to be corrected quickly and loudly.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_transmission
My site is https://unorde.red. I haven't updated in a while, unfortunately.
Worse still because Cloud Run is basically just managed KNative it’s not some crazy proprietary technology that Amazon would have to develop in house.
url redirect, i guess, or just migrate your domain to a DNS that actually supports everything, like hetzner. You'll just have to change the nameservers.
I've misread the title as "You can do a lot with an empty life", and clicked eagerly hiping to learn how to deal with the feeling of emptiness in your life.
Agreed, and not only on that point. Al pastor for example came from Lebanese immigrants. Almost all food was fusion at some point, and that's what's great. I was making tacos one day and didn't have any tomatillos. I did have gooseberries, and they're the same genus and work fine. Another time I used kiwis because they're both sweet and tart and brings similar things to a salsa.

I won't make any claims about my abilities, but I do really love trying to understand the basic concepts of food, so that I can figure out with why certain components are used, and what you can play around with to mix it up (both literally and figuratively).
One tiny nitpick - you should specify width and height for the image in the top of the page, otherwise there's a layout shift when the page loads.
Says the guy whose site has a slowly fading in full-screen banner with "Hello! I'm a web designer"

By the way, your link "My Work" under "What I want" is a 404.

I don't think you should be criticising anyone xD
You dont loose credibility by acknowledging you were wrong, you do so by lying to protect your image despite knowing better.

Yup, I had a chance to be involved in some high profile (for the company) PR issues and one of the worse things you can do is trying to cover something up. It's far better to just be transparent and admitting errors can actually build trust if done right.

But I also understand that without solid evidence, it can be impossible to give firm recommendations, which in the end can make people question the value of what you say.

Getting PR right is actually really hard.
What's the role of these tools? Can't a developer just write the code to get those data points?

At a first glance it seems like the hassle of integrating such a product into an existing ML codebase/pipeline is larger than solving the problem by hand.
10 years ago i did this classic-mac-a-like. But actually... I sorta liked most of the Win98 UI. Sure, there were weird corners like trying to confuse printers and control panels as files, but it was the beginning if msft paying attention to UX concepts an A11Y.

Call me a weirdo, but I thought the color-reduxed / high-contrast theme for Win2k was the apex of MSFT UIs.

https://github.com/OhMeadhbh/disco
You can be passionate and arrogant.
Xmake is also a C/C++ package manager
Silly headline.

> Dunbar’s number, 150, is the natural size of human social groups.

Presumably human language gives us a 2.8x boost over other primates.
(April fools)
I do it the really, really cheap way.. I have my keyboard and mouse connected to a USB hub and switch the USB cable between the computers. I have a USB cable connected to each computer and physically switch which one is connected to the hub.
> There, I've said it. Most 'games' are in fact interactive movies, with very little game in them. That's what Game Engines enable.

While I disagree with your argument about game engines being bad for games, you bring up an interesting point. Game engines are becoming cinematic movie engines.

Right now, they're a bit sub-standard. They shouldn't be built for consumer hardware at all, but rather live in the cloud where they have access to a lot of GPU compute for rendering.

The thing they get right is the reduction in film production complexity. Less going to set, less setting up lighting, cameras, etc. Easy tweaking in post, and an almost complete inversion of the production pipeline where directors, actors, and animators can work in lock-step with one another in fast iteration.

Unreal Engine is being stretched to do film things, but it's ultimately a local optimum. We're going to see a lot of new tools emerge in this space. (I'm building one!)

In the near future, films shot on cinema cameras and glass will be in the minority of visual media produced. It's just too time consuming. It'll become an artisanal pastime that directors like Wes Anderson remain attracted to.

The really interesting thing will be what happens to studios like Disney and Netflix that bank on in-house content and IP. Once media is no longer expensive and kids at home are making Star Wars of their own, the linear content moat is gone. Franchises and major IP will probably move to difficult-to-produce (for now) mediums, such as games, since films will turn into something more closely resembling novels - a huge basket of works, a wide distribution of quality, and a very long tail of interests that are catered to.

The next decade is going to be a wild ride.
Never have, never will. But I don't provide consumer goods, nor services. It's all B2B. Use LinkedIn for some professional connections, but mostly rely on my network
and recommendations.
That article was incredibly good, especially the digression on determinism with Einstein, Born and Pauli.

I feel like synchronicity just boils down to the pigeonhole principle.
Unfortunately the truth is something much simpler: sheer petty luck.
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Sounds interesting And I’m looking forwards to seeing what this brings along.
Could you elaborate a bit? I find this really interesting. My story is: I started with invoke (with boto3) then I wanted some more abstraction and use normal Requests. So i moved them to serverless framework with API Gateway. Then the 30 sec timeout became an issue (I do data engineering stuff). So i moved them to ALB. And now everything runs, but the ALB serverless support isn't great. (why do i have to give everything a unique priority aaahh :D)
Yes. I'm 43 and I'm feeling that I'm only now just hitting my stride, career wise, with good idea what I'm actually good at, want to do and can contribute. 20-40 was basically floundering around, trying things, learning things and working out what I wanted to do when I 'grew up'. And looking back, I wouldn't want to have had it any other way.
Doom tries to be closer to the metal. IMO it's a good comprimise between an authentic Emacs experience, but keeping sane
Or you can use `deno vendor` to check in your dependencies into version control, or put a caching HTTP proxy between you and the origin server. Don’t be fooled: Node & NPM have these same problems.
but that's hardly an endorsement.
One man emerges, twice as large.
Enlighten us then. If you're not too moody.
https://www.homeforbutterflies.com

it's my parents'website, but they don't have a hacker news account, so I'm sharing for them.

it's about butterflies, and their gardening journey. I made it for them and find it pretty wholesome.
Just FYi, McAfee says there a is a GenericRXHB Trojan included in the code... I think it fired when i opened the ski game. Possibly just a false positive from the emulator?
I mean companies like MailChimp became a billion dollar company without any of that. I think it can still work but most people have blinders on.
Is that how you downplay crimes against humanity? Finding irrelevant bullshit to distract from the actual issues?

It is disgusting!
If the average man on the ground in China realized what was going on here — hey maybe allowed to talk about it without it being suppressed — maybe we could do something about it.
https://kortlepel.com/

Have not updated the projects page in a while! It also lacks responsive design on mobile. It's all written from scratch in html, css, and js, by me and my fianceé :) I plan to update it, especially now
Conservative walks in the streets of a shithole called paris:
https://twitter.com/Tyron911147/status/1508953474024759298
Elon had starting capital.

So do millions of people. The vast majority end up doing absolutely nothing of interest or value with it.
Of course, that isn't quite true. If the result or outcome of an actvity is publicly observable or measurable, then a secondhand sense of judgement can be developed.
The prevalent milk in Germany (originally promoted as “hält länger frisch” et al) is Extended Shelf Life (ESL). It's treated hotter than traditional (HTST) pasteurisation of the type dominant in the UK, but not as brutally treated as traditional UHT.

Personally I'm not a fan of ESL and would seek out the remaining HTST brands, but it's eminently preferable to UHT.
Of course things could have moved, the area was active.

You can check out this thread [1] from bellingcat which shows pictures and videos of this place. And you can clearly see that there is more than one corpse.

[1]: https://twitter.com/bellingcat/status/1511284174921076736
https://www.hxa.name/

‒ lightweight, handmade, maybe a little bit of unusualness of design, quite a few writings, some software, other oddities, and almost 20 years old.
Taxi drivers in Hong Kong were telling me about some bad flu in the Mainland around Christmas.

It was known in Asia far before it'd been reported in western media.
Would love to hear any elaboration on what makes you think that. Otherwise your opinion will only amount to "I don't like it", which is just about the least actionable criticism anyone could ever hope for.
I genuinely don't understand all these Core Web Vital optimisation things - do people really care if a site takes 3 seconds to load instead of 1 second? All these little "use this tag with this attribute and only when halfway down a page" or whatever, is just ... odd to me.

It seems to be a very specific thing for very specific sites, to squeeze out a small performance increase, which could be cancelled out by any number of factors anyway.

For instance, the /only/ thing I did for our work site was to strip down the JS/CSS to what is actually needed, compress the images (and serve webp as well) ... and that was it. The same as I've been doing for 20 years. And according to https://pagespeed.web.dev it gets a 98% of desktop and 92% on mobile.

The one I /am/ down for, is not having the site load 10mb+ of assets to just look at a couple of images and text! (I'm looking at you, Wix and others) - that is just insane!

If the site hasn't loaded any content I can read after 5 seconds or so, I'm gonna hit refresh and give it another go, 5 more seconds and I'll close it out and either come back later or just move on - but maybe thats because I remember 28kbps internet, or maybe Im just mellowing with age :)

I guess there must be a use for all these things, but I personally can't see where the reward is > than effort
I mean basecamp and MailChimp prove you wrong. And there are countless others.
oh. i forgot to mention bobcat:

https://ohmeadhbh.github.io/bobcat/

it's meant to be viewed with lynx. i'm guessing the crowd here isn't afraid of the command line, so just do `lynx https://ohmeadhbh.github.io/bobcat/` and enjoy!
Personally I would happily change my opinion as soon as openai shares an interactive demo.

Maybe it really will magically output everything to my satisfaction, what a time to be alive! :)
Not necessarily. A mathematical proof that one-way functions do not exist need not say anything about non-one-way functions, so it need not say anything about how hard it is to invert what we now think might be one-way functions.

But yes, the risk that we don’t know whether encryption is mathematically possible hangs above every use of cryptography, using hashes to verify that data didn’t get tampered with, etc.
One theory is that governments acted maliciously and lied. The other theory is that they were being advised by bad science (the 5 micron boundary).

https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwu...
There should be examples (saying things like "oh, by the way, the projection operator is the SELECT clause of a SQL query" costs literally zero) but theory is important.

People who don't understand relational theory can't write SQL to save their lives.

I've seen schemas that literally made me scream.

I think the same applies to algorithms and data structures, e.g. red-black trees from the Cormen are literally std::map.
Nothing new in that regard, I was doing modular digital circuit design already in Windows 3.1 based simulation software.

The problem are those people that write functions that take endless PgDn to go through, well in visual languages that kind of mess is quite obvious.
The Ruble Has Bounced Back. What Does That Mean?
There's something cross cultural here that just doesn't cross. I can't relate. I'm responsible for me - my success, my failures. I also sure as hell better check on my neighbour and lend a hand.

Fulfilment comes from within, not externally. Results driven fulfilment comes from the gradual achievement of small goals, slowly combining into larger goals. They can be as small, as simple as reading a book.

The best advice I was ever given was 'finish what you start'. Rather than skim articles in newspapers, I forced myself to read (awful) articles from the beginning to end. Eventually that morphed, and I now make choices on when to skim, what to leave behind - what's a sunk cost fallacy and what isn't. But the point was to break the pattern, to achieve small things, and build on them.

I take the same approach with my kids. Get a win, then get another win.
Discussion from a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30915923
There is nothing silly about the headline. It’s a perfect tie in to the text of the article.
There was once a book, "100 Authors Against Einstein"[0]. Expect opposition against everything you do. Those who are against are just typically more vocal than those who don't know yet. Those who support Wolfram typically are busy doing research and don't care about commenting, they have better things to do than answer every naysayer 1v1. I'm in the "we'll see" camp, but I don't like naysayers.

[0] https://archive.org/details/HundertAutorenGegenEinstein
Well I don't think lebanese made pork dishes though.
I'm also surprised by the extreme negativity. This work is something that nerds like me should be interested in! It's basically a generalisation of physics: So far physics was assuming a mathematical foundation for the universe. It makes perfect sense to ask if it can be generalised and look for a procedural foundation. It's shocking to me that only Wolfram's company is pursuing such a logical alternative. And in my opinion his multiway graph approach is an elegant generalisation of what a procedural foundation could be like by trying to maximally reduce the assumptions made in the basic rule set (it's not a cellular automaton, even though everyone seems to be assuming it is)
Managing Remote Teams in Scaling Organisations
So, I definitely agree with this. Most of us don't have to do any thing at FAANG scale. But what counts as simple?

It's quite easy these days to deploy an app using AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, SNS, etc., all with a single Cloud Formation template. Is that simple? In one sense I've abstracted away a lot of the operational work that comes with self-hosted, but now I've intertwined (Rich Hickey might say complected) myself into Amazon's ecosystem.

Also, is a document store like DynamoDB, MongoDB, etc., simpler than a relational database like Postgres? On the one hand, a document database's interface is very simple compared to the complexity like SQL. On the other, that simplicity is generally considered a necessary sacrifice to scale. If you don't need to scale, why make the sacrifice?

Also, there can be simple things that are better at scaling. Elixir is a very nice scripting language like Ruby or Python, but it also has much better performance scaling (comparable with NodeJS or Go).
This somehow reminds me of that unsupervised Minecraft AI. The AI didn't know how to fight so it just ran away from mobs to avoid dying. Fleeing from battle is cheap and reliable but it is also a local minimum. You could argue that Minecraft is a very peaceful game but the reason why I bring this anecdote up is that for a bot running away from skeleton archers is not that easy. The AI developed combat capabilities sufficient to kill every other mob from fighting one unavoidable mob.

I'm starting to think that solving climate change is a stepping stone for space exploration. If you can harness energy directly from the sun and store it for long periods of time then you have all the energy building blocks you need for a long term colony on mars. You can't dig up dead plant matter on the moon or mars. You don't have millions of years of your ancestors' corpses as a crutch to turn into energy. You don't even have an oxygen rich atmosphere to avoid storing the oxidizer separately! You have to do everything from scratch and everything is harder than on earth.

Enjoy running away from the challenge!
An empty file was also the infinitely profitable program: http://peetm.com/blog/?p=55 On CP/M, it was useful to rerun the previous program that was still in memory.
Here for you, https://www.outsystems.com

The biggest issue is that many devs don't want to pay for their tools, like in any other profession.
Due to minifiers, mostly, no?
This is worth its own post on HN
Happy anniversary, Git Here are our favorite Git commands
Not sure, I'm not read up on RISC-V, but I don't know if someone would want it since AFAIK two's complement means fewer logic gates and a slimmer instruction set.

One's complement arithmetics don't break in the few odd cases like two's complement do though, so there could be that.
This mirrors (vaguely plagiarizes?) the observations in numerous famous works on expertise levels:

The mundanity of excellence by Chambliss

Dreyfus model of skill acquisiton

http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA084551&Location=U...

Sources of Power by Gary Klein

Peak by Ericsson

Surprised not to see any nods to the giants whose shoulders this is standing on.
My blog https://timdaub.github.io

I'm working on being a better (& independent) writer.
I was asking whether these are worth having in a future version.
I'm going out on a limb here and guess you're in the US because that's the only place I've seen hyperfixating on China during COVID discussions.

I don't think "China will forever be remembered as the wannabe superpower that was so scared of the truth that it knowingly fucked over the rest of the world for more than 2 years" because that's not even what anyone remembers them as today, outside the US. And even in the US I don't think that's going to matter or create any semblence of a legacy in any way that matters. China was very quick to rebound from the economic downturn and as far as I can tell came out ahead of everyone else.

Not to mention that every single other country fucked up their pandemic response so badly that getting angry at China requires several layers of indirection (though some US media has been better at making this detour).
Indeed, it was originally lamb, but that's another point for fusion, I'd say.
My disillusionment is not on a personal level, but rather, on a societal level. I thought that I would become successful enough to, well, make a lot of differences in how the society works. Now being an actual part of the society, I don't see how I could accomplish any of my childhood ambitions. Even if I'm 20x richer, with a much higher social status, they are beyond me.

I suppose that the younger version of me have gone too far in pride, and too little in understanding. Which I've made peace with. But a lingering consequence is that I really don't know what to aim for anymore, not inspired by any visions, not particularly excitable. From a day-to-day point of view, I settle for being helpful to my fellow human beings. On a grand scale, though, I'm quite lost.
I no longer trust them to tell the truth. Trust is what you earn when you prioritize truthfulness above all else.

They decided to spend public trust to what end?
Resilience is inherently wasteful.
https://erikpl.com/

It's just a landing page using a modified Hugo theme, I believe.

Not really a front-end person, but it does the job. And it performs great on Website Carbon:)
The issue is he makes a bunch of apparently empty claims about his hypergraph stuff being related to physics. The pictures are pretty and the hypergraph stuff is perhaps interesting in its own right, but with all the hand waving about QM and GR, I looked pretty hard a couple of years ago and couldn't find any explanation of the most familiar QM phenomena like the double slit experiment. It's almost like free association. I'd like to see this new theory solve one problem, and by that I don't mean an open research problem. I mean pick any homework problem from an introductory QM course and apply this stuff to it. As Feynman used to say, you have to get the numbers out. As far as I can tell, that hasn't happened.