jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It seems you’re not familiar with the situation.

Those new temporary hospital units that they built in 2 weeks, are specialized, negative pressure rooms, that sucks the air out of the room, and runs it through a scrubbing filter, before safely expelling it outside into the atmosphere.

They learned their lesson from SARS, and built these special care units, to treat pulmonary infectious diseases.

These negative pressure rooms will help minimize infected air, such as when you do an intubation, and the virus get aerosolized, then it helps to vacuum the virus out of the air inside the room.

These hospitals were built to treat their most critical cases. Then, they later built general facilities in sporting stadiums, for milder cases, to keep these infected patients away from their families and the public, while they recovered. In retrospect, they should have built these two types of facilities in parallel. This appears to be a lesson learned for them. They underestimated the magnitude of the infection rate, and later realized that milder cases can be triaged and treated separately.

Granted, not a whole lot of information about this was shared in Western media; since most of the effort, was spent smearing China, and their terrible authoritarian government.

And whatever was reported was dumbed down for western audiences. This was frustrating when you wanted to find actual information, and you had to dig deeper, to find actual useful information about what was happening on the ground.

Note: As typical of HN readers, I’m expecting to get docked -4 points for this post, because I actually wrote something positive about China’s efforts to contain the coronavirus. In the end, apparently, it worked.
There's actually two levels of jeopardy here:

1/ Treating a string as an array of bytes will give an invalid result if the string unless the string is simple ascii (or an equivalent encoding where each byte has a clearly defined standalone meaning); in particular, just reversing a UTF-8 string in this way will give an invalid answer - ie a string that isn't even valid UTF-8.

2/ The fix for (1) is to convert your string into an array of Unicode code points and reverse that … except that is also broken, because combining characters will now not associate correctly, as per other answers in this thread.

Coding your way out of problem (2) in a robust and sensible way is, I suggest, a significant challenge.
The way I understand the tracker scene, most don't care about restricting distribution of their tracks. But when others are actually selling, I'd think some authors might disagree with that.

The original authors can sue. And given the extensive documentation on these tracks, it would be an easy case. But whether there'd be any money to recover is unclear. Given the paltry damages you likely get when you're not selling yourself and tolerating copying anyway. Also the seller might be hard to reach legally, and you'd still have to actually sue, which comes with costs.

So the other route is sending notices to at least damage the business model.
I don't think those slides are talking about court order related activities. After all, all companies must comply with court orders, so why would the NSA single out the nine as their "current providers"?
Not really, it's the voice of experience. For example, I did Versant in the 90s, and the reasons we ripped it out and went back to Oracle, still apply when someone says "let's use MongoDB!". But too many people in the industry lose out if we stop reinventing the wheel and start REAL innovation.
Most software projects fail.
Not true. The 4790k supports vt-d. All indications are that it's a market segmentation choice Intel made.
That seems to miss my point, which is not about immigration, but about the quality of discussion on Hacker News.
I’m unqualified to comment on whether quantum computing is modern-day alchemy, but the geopolitical implications of Laughlin’s opinion are pretty interesting.

By throwing a lot of resources at something that might be bullshit but has not yet been proven so, the US compels its weaker adversaries to allocate a disproportionate amount of their resources to the field. Instead of competing with the US where it matters, they run in a wild goose chase.

If indeed the folks in the US government think this way, they are pretty smart cookies.
I think this is good advice. It reminds me of the advice about that the difference between a hoard and a collection is the display case. It's great to have the interests and you like what you like, but if it's just a never ending pile that is damaging other pursuits it's no good for you, but if it's something you can catalog, explore, curate, and especially share in a meaningful way then having that interest is important. Even if no one cares about your display case but you.

Also, OP, maybe look into building an operating system from first principles like that dude who made the tetris OS [0] or look into creating a nice collection of curated OS VM snapshots that demonstrate the things you're into in a running environment with tools like LXC/LXD [1] ( these days it's surprisingly easy to share VMs running with very detailed emulated specs running connected to a web browser) or look into taking the time to assemble one of those kits that lets you build a historic processor with LEDs and transistors on a bread board [2]. Or if you just like reading about it, even just keeping a journal or private wiki will I think make it so it gains personal context. Also, you like what you like. If it's not really hurting you to have a hobby about loving the history of OSs, I know some folks that are pretty encyclopedic about the inside baseball of pro wrestling or star trek. Hunt your bliss.

For what it's worth, I'm pretty sure your insights into the things your reading is something I'd enjoy reading or exploring. If/when you figure out how you want to share that, I hope to see it and I can dig in and read or watch every entry and ignore what I'm really supposed to be doing in a day and bore my girlfriend with the details. I think possibly this is just describing how human history is assembled after it's done being the human present.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaILnmUYS_U

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIwgPKkVj8s

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCbAafKLqC8
This reminds me of the great Vonnegut short story “Who Am I This Time?”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Am_I_This_Time%3F
> the model where big companies have their technology stacks underpinned by charity is ridiculous

Worse: they are exploiting people's good intentions.

They co-opted the Free Software movement.

Copyleft has been painted as "business-unfriendly" and replaced with permissive licenses - aka unpaid labor without "strings attached".

> They need to learn to pony up and start funding the "free" software they use

...instead they even dodge taxes.
The New York times has really gone downhill. What are people liking these days? Washington Post?
There’s obviously something wrong with that, because now he is unable to release his app on other platforms where it would probably find a larger audience.

To be clear, C# is a great language for this project. It’s the choice of using a platform specific library (SceneKit) that baffles me.
Thanks a ton for a great advice. I appreciate it.
1. That's my doubt too. (I mean it could be a false alarm) One good quality my manager has is that, he doesn't do micromanagement. Trusts the employees. (I think work from home also adds to the confusion. Had there been some in person interactions, I could have interpreted better)
2. Having said that, I strongly suspect he is deliberately ignoring me. With due respect, he is a very mediocre manager.( in terms of technical knowledge etc.). Only silver lining for me is that, my 2nd line manager ( his boss) is technically very good and he rates me very high. He still talks to me.
Part one of the title is true. Part two of the title is probably true but we don’t know.
How can I move away from Google. All my millions of accounts and services (even ones I've forgotten and may one day need) are linked to my Gmail.

And frankly, I find it hard to trust many others with some of my secure information (passwords) etc that I keep on my account...I feel like Google probably have some of the best of "anti-hacking" for lack of a better term.

I find MS services a pita to use and Apple, I just don't want to pay for their HW, it's not good value (to me).
Did you consider that if they weren't interested, that your evaluation of "high impact POC's" is likely incorrect?
> My guess is that, he wants to

Don't do this. Don't assume what might be happening and create stories around that and plan your career on top a big pile of assumptions. If you have concerns, speak to your manager. It doesn't need to be defensive, you don't need to make a big deal out of that conversation, just check in to see how they are doing and let them know how you are. I find it surprising that you don't already have a scheduled regular one-to-one meeting.
If "containing nm sized particles" is all something needs to do to be considered nanotechnology, everything is nanotechnology. This is getting ridiculous.
> I don't know if it's fair to say that every teenager who is not immune to that is not accepting personal responsibility.

To give it some perspective, in 1942 there were 18 year-olds fighting in the war. The people then were under tremendous pressure. They had enormous responsibilities and enormous independence, compared to today.

What changed?

Are we supposed to expect that at 18, she's ready to live on her own, sleep with anyone she chooses, join the military, but she's still a child, and can't muster the wits or guts to fight peer pressure.

I, for one, have higher standards. It's demeaning (IMHO) to deny her own responsibility in her actions.

What do you think of her opinion now? She's clearly older, maybe in her thirties. And she's still denying all personal responsibility for her actions.

When I was 18 I did stupid things, and I'm adult enough to admit they were stupid things. Why can't she make the same admission?
The car sharing service already exists in Finland. It's not very popular because it's expensive to rent a car for use, and renting one's own car to someone else is not very profitable (so most people won't do it). Besides, it means that the car owner can't use his own car any time he pleases (which is a key selling point of owning a car in the first place).
Yup. "Math is hard, I'm going to study psychology! Weeeee!"
In case my meaning was unclear, what I meant was that it's perfectly possible to make a REST application without third party code. The existence of third party code does not mean that it's impossible, or even particularly difficult, without them.
I'm a big fan of Moo, but they are everywhere now. I ordered some letterpress personal business cards from Blush and constantly get compliments on the quality of my card, I'd definitely recommend those but they are even more expensive due to the letterpress.
cool - thanks. i almost wrote the same thing, alas... i had other priorities.

will defintely check it out, but if i dont like it... you might have some competition
Works fine for me here in Toronto, Canada.

Have you tried running a traceroute and/or DNS lookup to see if anything looks anomalous?

Was IPv6 recently enabled on your network? (Try visiting http://test-ipv6.com/)
Definitely falls into the 'dark pattern' category as well.

http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2013/07/23/the-slippery...
Google is simply trying to unify their services. YouTube was an acquisition, with it's own login system and social network. They don't want to maintain this separation forever, they want a single signon for everything.

Ditto for sharing and contacts. You had separate 'contacts' in Gmail, Latitude, G+, Reader, YouTube, and probably others I'm missing. Users shouldn't be prompted to maintain N different copies of this information and manage it in confusing ways.

It's a mistake to view this as "they're forcing me to use the G+ social stream". It's more "they're consolidating my 5 different profiles and authentication credentials across services."

Google could axe the social stream and this would still make sense.
I bet height correlates very weakly with basketball ability among top NBA players, too.
Good developers cost, what, $120K-150K/year?

If a two week trial period is "expensive" to you, you don't have the budget for someone in that pay range.
They've had HTML/CSS/JavaScript "native" apps since IE5: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application (not that it was ever a good idea to use this feature)
I think it comes down to the difference between "having a mission statement" and "being on a mission."

Mission statements are usually all corporate-speak and written in passive voice. They are generally pretty useless.

Expressing the mission you're on is more expressive and active. It's also easier for customers to get behind, and for the company to internalize.
My background as a mathematician likely biases this answer. Someone who has experienced life outside of academia will likely have different advice.

The mathematics you will likely want to know includes:

- Multivariate Calculus/Matrix Stuff/Linear Algebra

- Real Analysis

- Probability

- Measure Theory?

- Statistics 101

If you successfully took proofs-based mathematics courses in undergraduate and you've grokked "mathematical maturity" then learning these subjects is just a matter of time. These subjects for the basics tools for dealing with classical statistics.

I'm not currently engaged in research but there seems to be a few major trends in the talks I've attended.

- It appears that the Frequestist approach to finite dimensional models with small sample sizes is largely resolved.

- The introduction of high powered computing gave new life to the analytically intractible Bayesian approach and has renewed interest in how to to Monte Carlo simulation more efficiently.

- There has been a lot of work studying situation where the number of parameters is infinite or at least significantly larger than the number of samples. Eg, determining 10,000 genes from each of five people with cancer and five without and trying to identify which gene causes cancer.

- Perhaps this is more machine learning but there has also been interest in how to deal with unstructured data. Traditionally the random variables have been numbers so you can say things like "Assume a citizens height is normally distributed with mean x and variance y." It's a bit more tricky to meaningfully put a distribution on the set of all email texts, or the set of all network structures etc.

- There also appears to be interest (on blogs at least) about data visualisation.

The point of mentioning all of these is to point out that there are a number of options available to you. Some are more pure mathsy and other more computer sciencey. Different topics will require different mathematical backgrounds.
His first assumption is wrong, at least for the US. Yes, lawyers are involved in lobbying for and suggesting the text of laws. However, lawyers that represent all sides are involved, and non-laywers can lobby just as well as lawyers.

The rest of his argument is essentially that obeying the law costs him money as an entrepreneur if he gets caught, and so the things he wants to do should not be illegal.
These would be amazing to build with a 3D printer. If I had the time I'd try building one by hand using legos.
Too early to tell if I'm going to like it. Going to take a LOT of getting used to. I already miss the view where I see each individual website and the hits, uniques and visitors.

- website-a.com 50 visits, 2 minutes on site
- website-b.com 25 visits, 4 minutes on site
- etc...

Maybe it's still there somewhere, but who knows?
Because there are existing court rulings declaring that lethal injection (with a particular cocktail of drugs) is not considered cruel and unusual punishment. If any other method were tried the accused would appeal on the grounds that the method was excessively cruel and the court process would take many years to complete.
> What in the fresh hell are we doing where nearly every part of this "economy" is mad about it?

We're at the point in the hype cycle where the service has become popular, so the media has flipped to the contrarian takes about how it's bad, actually. It wasn't that long away that we were reading stories about how food delivery services were providing restaurants an opportunity to keep their doors open during COVID lockdown.

Restaurants only hate food delivery when the companies try to force them to lower prices (so the delivery service can capture the margin) or when they perform bad-faith actions like misrepresenting themselves as an official partner of the restaurant when no such deal has been made.

The restaurants who simply prepare orders at their normal retail price and hand them off to delivery drivers who deliver to customers who know what they're getting into are actually loving this boom. It's extra business without the hassle of dealing directly with customers.

That's actually the driver of the problems: Restaurants have been so eager to get a piece of this booming business that some of them have given up their own margin to partner with delivery services looking to squeeze every dollar out of the restaurants. I suspect that era won't last long as restaurants do the math on what it's costing them.
I am only replying because I hate the spread of misinformation like this. Hundreds who saw this probably believed you without spending a second facts-checking.

All the profits from Fanta were kept away from the Nazi government by the American Coca-Cola managers in Germany and then handed over the parent company when the war was over. Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-coca-cola-invented-fanta...

The Columbia story has nothing to with racism. It's all internal Colombian politics, not one race raging a war against another.

John Stith Pemberton died 133 years ago and is irrelevant to any discussion regarding the current Coca-Cola.
Love what you are building and rooting for this. I've been waiting for something like this for atleast 10 years
> Doesn't that just leave you in an echo chamber of people who agree with you, and you don't learn anything new?

If you follow an account that tweets (reliable!) information about space rockets, you will learn a lot of new things about space rockets.

Not everything on Twitter is a manifestation of a political viewpoint. There is a huge amount of worthwhile stuff that is just informative, interesting, beautiful, or fun.
You were not rude. My initial response was unhelpful and aggressive, and I quickly edited it to respond to your arguments. I apologize for the initial response.

For the record, regarding 3, there is something in the design of Debian that makes the cleanup function work very reliably. (Again, not perfectly, but very reliably.) There are strict, strict rules for Debian maintainers in terms of the pre-install and post-removal scripts that go with packages. These rules help to maintain a very uniform system - even though its actively developed by thousands of people all over the world who are often only loosely connected to each other.
Thanks for posting this. I had not yet had my quota of string-twiddling Perl for the day.
> you know, the company that wins on Jeopardy

Hehe. Priceless.
These usually fall back to regular text messages.
Can someone explain the use of nc here?
This makes it sound like other data was compromised for some specific users. Since they didn't go into how they know it was only for only these users, I'm not very confident about this.

> As part of our investigation we detected suspicious activity affecting a very small number of Slack accounts. We have notified the individual users and team owners who we believe were impacted and are sharing details with their security teams. Unless you have been contacted by us directly about a password reset or been advised of suspicious activity in your team’s account, all the information you need is in this blog post.
Or perhaps use it to advertise a Baidu competitor.

Okay, I'm guessing this isn't on Baidu so much as the Chinese governments, but incentivizing Chinese corporations to object to government attacks isn't a terrible idea.
Unfortunately true. When I saw the headline, I was hopeful this was going to be about "incident" searches, and not merely "inventory" searches.

I still don't understand how the reasoning behind "incident" searches, which I'd understood to be primarily about the safety of the arresting officers, would apply to the contents of a mobile device, but that's modern criminal justice for you...
Psycopaths everywhere
And these are the people who are supposed to protect us from "disinformation"? The fact that the NYT can publish an article like this with a straight face just proves why we need freedom of speech as much as ever. Our once-trusted institutions have lost a sense of propriety and commitment to the truth.
The report saying pieces fell on a coal plant, but also saying no cargo was dropped suggests pieces of the aircraft fell... Suggesting perhaps some panels were ripped off by the airflow.
And WhatsApp. If they could make a relatively inexpensive watch that did WhatsApp messaging and payments, that could be very successful in the developing world... but would have no impact on Apple.
Google pretty much destroyed any possibility of anothe competitor entering the mobile OS market (I always thought that dumping was illegal and you can't go much lower than 0).
I think the biggest question here is to what extent can productivity in basic research be quantified. Or, what are the value to failed experiments and explorations of "out there" ideas? Basic research is tricky because it is at the periphery of human knowledge, so getting our bearings there is difficult. The focus should, you are right, be on "overall productivity" and not on individual productivity, but the question is how do we make decisions about individuals based on overall productivity goals.
1. You also shouldn't build apps because people hate downloading them.

2. That's what Spotify and other companies are doing.

Spotify provides both web and desktop version. Oops I mean three: web, desktop, and natime mobile.
So, what can we conclude about this?
Ah yes, the old horizontal scaling technique.
> Since the results of the regulatory tests and safety and efficacy validations can mostly be transferred for slight vaccine modifications

Is that kinda like saying the 737-MAX wasn't really a new type of plane?
> Right-arrow accepts the current suggestion.

If the '→' key is too far away from the home row for your liking, you can use Control-E instead, as long as you're at the end of the input buffer (it's the "go-to-end-of-buffer" command normally)
In the beginning, VC investment is always potential. Realizing that potential takes time. So, I don't think it makes sense jump to conclusions too soon
Or even just input validation on the form itself before passing on to the API, which is more of what I was getting at. I don't know about the details of Authy's setup, but I know that AJAX (for example) supports enforcement of specific value types in text fields.

Basically, the form itself could have (and maybe even should have) required numeric-only values, seeing as Authy's codes are either 6 or 7 digits long and contain no alphabetical or special characters.
I never claimed to be impartial. I use both apps and have been following them closely. I think Periscope will win some portion of the market, and Meerkat another. Saying that it's screwed right now, while there's still so much excited activity, is still bunk.

Almost every app's growth slows after a viral launch. In a few days we'll see Periscope's growth slowing as well. That doesn't mean they all die.
Who cares what RMS wants?