skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with this.
Definitely learn to push back.
I've been in a similar situation albeit in aviation systems engineering.
The way I dealt with a lot of incoming request was to always point out that I had things that were already on the back burner.
I would phrase it along the lines of: "I am currently doing Y, and was planning to do X and Z next. Is A you're asking me to do urgent? If yes, I can do it after Y of you're okay with X and Z being delayed."
This usually got me a response that indicated want the priority was.
I would also really try not to let the current work I was doing being stopped. Stopping something midtask would always make the same item I was working on take longer, so I would push back if they tried to stop current work midstream.
I would say: "I'm X hours away from accomplish this task. Can item A your asking wait until then?"
That usually got me some good relief.

One item to note that this is also an opportunity to request some training, either formal or informal. Find the skill that if improved would easily increase your task output, find formal training for it in the area or nearby. If you can put a cost benefit analysis on a 1 page word doc, you might be able to take this opportunity to improve your skills as well.
At least on iOS Safari there's this bug (feels like it's always been there, maybe content blocker related?) where sometimes a search simply gets eaten. The browser somehow thinks you went from nowhere straight to the page you're on, even though you went past a Google results page.

I assume it's somehow redirect-related and that's why these sites tend to trigger it.
Native Americans managed the prairie for better bison hunts (2018)
Is this different than VecEnv in baselines?

https://github.com/openai/baselines/blob/master/baselines/co...
To save anyone else the trouble of trying, all of these links have been used now and are no longer valid.

If you want an invite, you can just email me as explained in the announcement post: https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes
> I still hate it

I left a strongly worded feedback on their form
> The first people to have home terminals were those system programmers who might be called at any hour to investigate or repair a problem with the time-sharing system. These folks took home a machine that might cost as much as half a year's salary, and had a leased phone line connected to the MIT data PBX installed at home. They discovered that having a machine at home was useful not only for fixing the operating system, but also for programming and writing documents from home, and for sending electronic mail to other users on the MIT system.

Imagine being one of the first people in the world to discover that you could sit at home and tap out messages to other people sitting at home, who'd pick them up instantly (or at their leisure).
Most are MSDN license which will invalided and deactivated sooner than later.
I am an epidemiologist. Right now, the case fatality definition is bonkers. 2.3% is the low estimate, and it goes way up. The high estimate is 91%. That's just a uselessly broad figure because it's still very early days.

If I had to guess, I'd guess it's probably around the level of SARS/MERS.
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Copyright, again, in US law (applies to many though not all HN readers) is hinged on a Constitutional justification "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" (Art I, Sec 8, Clause 8). That is: to provide a benefit to the public.

An element of which, this house argues, is the enjoyment of and illumination provided via, Internet memes.
See also Lyft's Colorbox:

https://www.colorbox.io/

Announcement and motivation blog post:

https://design.lyft.com/re-approaching-color-9e604ba22c88

and HN discussion, 4 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21028361
Would like to hear anybody from Google (anyone?) try to defend this as "not being evil".

For a long time I have dismissed the perrenial chant that starts every time Google does something someone doesn't like that they're now "evil".

But this really seems to be 100% pure user hostile and directly in conflict with Google's mission to "organise the world's information".
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2012 is an outlier, and the data should just be discarded. The only reason it was as low as it was because a massive cyclone came through in August.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Arctic_Cyclone_of_2012
Amazon just filed a bunch of international trademarks for 'Amazon Pharmacy'
> lots and lots of embedded systems are now bulky Linux boxes

These systems have the resources to run managed runtimes. I’ve shipped embedded software running .NET core 2.2 on ARM Linux (RK3288 with custom set of peripherals), only a minor part of the software being unsafe (a shared library written in C++).

Over the last 20 years, desktop GUI software, web servers, and mobile software migrated from C++ towards managed languages, and they never looked back. I’m pretty sure the majority of embedded software gonna follow the same path.
> If you invest in corporate bonds, you're giving cash to companies to innovate (or at least helping increase the value of loans, which decreases future interest rates, encouraging innovation).

The point is that the way banks or other consolidated funds allocate this funding to corporate accounts, can be either inefficient or misanthropic if you take a certain stance toward innovation, namely that innovation isn't quite the same as rent capture and should be more than just efficiency for existing processes.

Share price can decouple from the actual profitability of a corporation which gives the bank the option of either selling or providing a cash injection if the corporation risks solvency. And then if they run out of everyone else's cash they can ask the Fed to print more just so that they can continue the cycle of ownership for that corporation.

But all that does for the economy on a whole is (a) raise the total rate of inflation for everyone, including people who aren't invested in the bank and (b) consolidate more and more assets into the holdings of these banks, and by association the actual wealth (while not actually creating anything that can give you more money than you put into it, otherwise you wouldn't need the cash injection).

This is what 2008 gave us: a feedback loop where more growth of non-profitable companies needs more inflation, and more inflation requires more growth from your holdings.

If Uber and Amazon are anything to go off of this strategy is actually preferred, probably due to the thesis that "software can eat the world" and you ought to lose as much cash as possible to "innovate" new interfaces to commodity industries at any cost, which essentially optimizes existing supply chains instead of finding use for novel technological capabilities.

Maybe I have the wrong idea that innovation and profitability go hand in hand? Or that the tech industry should be about tech?

This doesn't have anything to do with the Reserve but it's still an illustrative example: we've been here with WeWork where the business failed and yet the CEO was rewarded billions of dollars on exit. Who knows what he intends to do with that money now as a failed innovator. In hindsight maybe the reason that Adam was given such a large exit package was because of how he facilitated one of the fastest foreign asset takeovers of the last 40-50 years?
It is not SARS, but it is highly possible that it was caused by people who kill and sell wild animals in the live poultry market. Where these animals like gem-faced civet got virus from bats. It is a long-held tradition for certain regions in China to eat wild animals. We even have a Chengyu called: 山珍海味, meaning precious and tasty animals from mountains and seas. Most wild animals are not evolved to be eaten by human, so not like beef or pork, they do not taste well. People only eat it because they can. Because they want to show others that they can. This is sad.
"Something like ECMO is extremely invasive and limited to maybe a few per ICU."

Better supportive intensive care is exactly what lowers the case fatality rates for viral pneumonia. And this is very unlikely to become a hospital capacity problem.
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That seems to support the argument that security vulnerabilities in WhatsApp are most likely unintentional errors / incompetence. Unless you're suggesting the 737 MAX was intentionally sabotaged as well?
Just wait until their feedback forms get ads.
Rise of the 'Bleakquel'
It is just pointless bashing, covering up 2 months? Think how this pandemic had escalated in a week, and neighboring countries will not notice it for 2 months?

Some people have some weird imagination
They really couldn’t care less about their reputation could they?
It looks like Openbox. I see openbox and xfce in the packages listing.
Burnout: 'Sick and tired of feeling sick and tired'
As does Singapore (MRT and ComfortDelGro compete), which is arguably one of the most effective and cheapest systems in the world. There isn't infrastructural problems, (as I understand it, I could be wrong) as a part of the operating contract, they are required to have interoperable fares.
You ban them from your platform, and since you know them, they'll have a really hard time getting back on. And yes, report them to the authorities too.
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I get what you're saying. It does have an anticompetitive/colluding feel to it.

I don't know exactly where my opinion lies in this case. I think the cloud backup space currently has many players and that even if all players agreed to this - the net result would be Google earning less, each of those companies having less ad spend, and therefore greater profitability.

Heck, imagine if a 3rd party existed to "bypass" the Google ad auction through collusion on generic terms like 'computer backup'. (I'm not in this space, so some of the feasibility is speculative). Each company puts in their bid parameters for search terms. 3rd party evaluate the bids, submit 2 slightly different bids to minimize ad spend, and since the whole market coluded, Google made less money.

It's fragile, it's collusion. It's easily by passable by anyone going to Google directly. Was anyone harmed?
That's wonderful to hear!
Bing results still look like Google's used to, and although its index is smaller, that is slightly less important when Google seems to try its hardest to avoid showing you what you actually searched for. I've been using it more as a result, and also occasionally DDG and Yahoo; whereas for a long time my searches were exclusively on Google, now I find myself using other search engines because of the lack of quality of results and these other stupid changes that happened to Google within the past year or two.
It's worth mentioning that just because something tops a list of conditions, doesn't mean money/effort is best spent there. The true measure is expected benefit per $ spent. Some conditions prove particularly resistant to research efforts, while others might be comparatively cheap to cure or alleviate. In those cases you are better off focusing on the 'easy wins' and moving to the more difficult problems once the biggest and fastest gains have been made with the comparatively easier conditions.
Also big mainframe users (banks, insurance) often send fixed width data to us.
You're absolutely right. They could have definitely misled anyone that didn't read the entire support article, including the first paragraph under Data Security:

>iCloud secures your information by encrypting it when it's in transit, storing it in iCloud in an encrypted format, and using secure tokens for authentication. For certain sensitive information, Apple uses end-to-end encryption. This means that only you can access your information, and only on devices where you’re signed into iCloud. No one else, not even Apple, can access end-to-end encrypted information.
There are a number of sites that simply crash with a web framework backtrace or behave strangely when the User-Agent header is not sent.
So lots of people get the flu, but few people die from it.

Few people get SARS/MERS, but they're much more likely to die.

There are a lot of reasons for that. And yes, Washington State can effectively respond to CoV incidents - contact tracing, which is what you need to get people into isolation, is very labor intensive, and probably going on right now. State health departments help support hospitals in doing infection control work (to prevent within hospital transmission) and a lot of coordinating.
Quite a few alternatives to RE's I put in this answer:

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1949...
Things like if I want to run but am feeling lazy, I put on my running shoes and clothes, which means I'll eventually run. To put on the shoes is trivial, but it works to get me on a run, however long.

Before I lift weights, I mop the floor since some of my exercises put me on the ground. Mopping is easy and makes lifting automatic. For some reason, once I mop, I automatically transition to lifting.

Starting my burpees took years of experimenting on what would avoid my standing there intending to start, but not starting. Counting down or up didn't work. What worked was committing to starting on the next breath. Now I pace all my calisthenics by breath.

These are examples of little things I found that if I do them, I do the big things. As far as I can tell, the way to find tricks that work is to keep doing the activity until a trick that works emerges.
I'm not sure how many articles are published a year in ACM [1], but the answer seems to be a few 10,000s. That's a per-article publishing cost of a few hundred dollars, which is not unrealistic to me.

[1] The ACM Digital Library claims 2.8 million published over 84 years, or about 33,000/year if divided equally over the years (which is laughably false). Some number of that quantity may include citations for keynotes or posters, which aren't really research papers, but I don't have a good handle on that rate.
I'm pretty sure regular Ubuntu would even run fine on 1gb! Would probably eat half your ram at idle though.
I've been able to mostly stop rubbing my eyes or nose, when I'm serious about staying healthy.

If I'm desperate, I rub them with some piece of clothing that's not much exposed to the air, such as the inside of my t-shirt. Or alternatively, washing my hands carefully with soap and water immediately before rubbing my eyes.

I can't say for sure if those measures helped, but it seems plausible based on my experience.
>then every few years when the projects fail or are over budget (time or money) to replace the partner ... and then they have to start again

i've also worked with Germans a lot, and what you said is one of the keys to their success. Everybody makes mistakes. Mistakes are given. Majority of IT everywhere is mistakes, failures and waste :) What Germans do, at least in my anecdotal experience, is that they [slowly, with time, yet unstoppable] do ultimately notice the mistakes/failures and really react to it with strong reaction like you described, like closing projects, replacing partners, etc. - basically cutting the bad pieces out, cutting losses without fear of sunken costs.
One great thing about a $99/year ACM membership is that it includes full access to the O’Reilly service formerly known as Safari Books, normally $499/year. I have no idea what the volume pricing on Safari subscriptions is, so can only say there’s a possibility that ACM article sales subsidize Safari books; I do know that, as an individual who has to learn new things and look old things up constantly, the inclusion of O’Reilly/Safari makes an individual ACM subscription a fantastic deal.

Additionally, having seen someone organize an academic conference once, I do know that IEEE provides a conference with things like bank accounts, insurance, and purchasing departments that can meet the creditworthiness requirements of major hotels. It also ends up covering the shortfall if the conference winds up losing money.

I’m all for improving efficiencies where possible, and there are definitely some problems with these organizations, don’t get me wrong; but I did want to emphasize that both organizations are definitely providing real value to parts of the computing community.

Disclaimer: I haven’t read the link as twitter is (intentionally) inaccessible from my machine.
The only group that benefits from fail fast are VCs

Doesn't the entrepreneur also benefit if it keeps him from pursuing a business that will never work? Otherwise they may become a victim of the Sunk Cost Fallacy -- after investing so much time and money into their business, they don't want to give up.

The key, of course, is knowing if you really have a failing strategy, or if you just having devoted enough time/money into making it a success. And the VC can look at it more dispassionately than the inventor.
I think this prevents them from having to look at their phones, and the expressiveness mirrors speaking since text-to-speech is so immediate.
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> have ACM and the other mentioned organizations already reached the tertiary and last stage of INJELITITIS?

Frankly, ACM membership and publication is a good deal compared to many other societies. For $200 annual dues, you get unlimited access to all journals.

Contrast to the American Chemical Society. For $175, you get:

1) Access to 50 articles for 48 hours
2) The right to purchase access to additional articles at $12 a pop for 48 hour access.

You want to look at the article again after 48 hours? Pay up again.

[0] https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/membership/member-benefit...
It supports the argument that code with major flaws (intentional or not) can make it into production with nobody noticing until consequences of that flaw make its existence clear.
I would read the hell out of that article.
Oooo, I kind of want to get that $200 Pinebook to play with this on.

I have a nostalgia for posix like systems on older hardware, I remember when my daily was Ubuntu on a PIII.
This latter version has quite a bit of extra content, particularly at the end where he is discussing how far it is possible to push the game within different axiom systems. The discussion of his proof on why BB(8000) can't be determined within ZF set theory is also very interesting.
> it is almost impossible to block people on the internet

This isn't just "people on the internet", though. These are people who have some sort of physical presence that they ship goods from, and have some interaction with the financial system so they can accept payment. There are finite ways that they can do this, and that provides a way to actually identify the person across account signups in order to keep them blocked.

No, it's not perfect, but it's a hell of a lot better than, say, trying to block someone from HN who is determined to keep creating new accounts using VPNs, proxies, whatever.
Yes I worked in a print production industry and unit testing was almost impossible. To generate a string of text reliably and correctly is not difficult, but to position it on the page respecting other elements, flow, overlap, current branded font and size, and white space - unit testing is basically useless. And these are the errors we faced most.
Why is it that 25 years into web usage, any controlled access is deemed too complicated?

Two words: corporate greed. It's so much easier to persuade and herd them to where they can be "monetised" when they don't know how things work, nor can't figure out how and where to learn.
As an epidemiologist, this is an "and" not an "or".

You need to wash your hands to supplement a mask. If you believe it's working, the mask is now covered in infectious fomites, and you need to get it off you without infecting yourself.

The good news is coronaviruses are enveloped, and thus relatively susceptible for disinfectants.
That sounds like something worth reporting if possible, assuming it's also written to a log it might be a denial of service week point.
I have been very satisfied with CreditKarma's free tax filing. It has _actually_ been free for me, while TT has felt like a bait-and-switch ("felt like" because it is).

Yes, I realize that even though I am not paying for the product, I'm giving them the benefit of my personal data. But at least I am not aware of CK lobbying congress to keep an unnecessarily complex tax system.
In France it's largely Islam and north-African immigrants.
It managed to completely shatter the secular and assimilation/integration model that had worked for at least a century.

But to answer more generally the loss of character does not have to come from a single place. In cities like London or Sydney you can see that the loss of character comes from 50 different countries.
It's also not at all clear that N95 masks are meaningfully superior to surgical masks.

One of several studies on the topic: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4868605/
I'll echo the rest of the people's comment and say Python. It's reasonably easy to pick up, and is really versatile.
I personally use it for some backend work, and it's a joy to use.
One language that I am intrigued by is C# and dotnet. I live in the Midwest, and there are way more dotnet jobs than there are Python, which surprised me at first, but then I figured most of the shops here would have been on prem installations.
The tooling from Microsoft has improved a lot in the past 3 year.
I myself will be looking at C# just to see how it feels to use.
Do you have any data about that?
From your second citation: "Although N95 respirators appeared to have a protective advantage over surgical masks in laboratory settings, our meta-analysis showed that there were insufficient data to determine definitively whether N95 respirators are superior to surgical masks in protecting health care workers against transmissible acute respiratory infections in clinical settings."
and except for simple formalities, Arxiv isn't reviewed, typeset or anything else, which a normal journal usually entails (and typesetting costs... hands up, who is doing all the integral d-s in mathrm...). And yet people cite Arxiv often blindly...
Another way how this kind of company would likely fail to continually thrive in the US, even when it's not sold: those niche markets are so small that even when completely dominated the profits would be insufficient to get date-in-Hollywood rich or groom-yourself-for-presidency rich. So if you have bigger ambitions than the niche allows you'd hand over the reins to a "maintenance manager" and focus on something more promising. Those small niche specialist businesses reach excellence through a loyalty to whatever field that made them big that is fueled by limits to ambition. (I think I already posted this idea on some other HN that)

(and the businesses tend to be filled with a weirdly self-contradicting mix of nationalistic hybris and massive imposter syndrome)
I'm confused. Isn't AMP mostly an issue on mobile devices? Can you use this on a phone?
Aldi and LIDL (or any other chain with the same working-three-employees-to-the-bone and having and narrow set of products) are pretty ghetto compared to other EU supermarket chains with larger footprints and higher prices. Though there are things in Aldi I like (at least in my own country, I know there are two different Aldi structures going around).

And Germans definitely have a reputation for being cheap and careless with their appearance that's not quite just a cliché.
Wow, it’s amazing how a company can stray so far from its humble origins and original ethos.

It’s an interesting study. I remember Google before Gmail. It was a different time with such promise for a better web and better world.

What a shame it’s becoming such an irrelevant piece of junk. Then again, where else could it have went ?

What a shame.
Can we stop the Drama?

The more SO ask for Pardon or try to appease worse it gets.

Just stop the notification "From the CEO".

And continue to provide value.

That is it.