skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Studies from patients who died from SARS coronavirus showed the virus caused damage to not only the lungs, but also other organs in the body. Early research suggests the Wuhan coronavirus can also damage other organs, including the kidneys.

The Wuhan coronavirus appears to cause pneumonia in two ways: when the virus takes hold in the lungs, and through secondary bacterial infections, however, the first way appears to be more common.

Although it can be difficult to determine whether organ damage from the Wuhan coronavirus is a result of direct viral infection or indirect “collateral damage” from the immune system, initial reports suggested around 11% of people severely ill with the Wuhan coronavirus experienced sepsis with multi-organ failure.

https://theconversation.com/how-does-the-wuhan-coronavirus-c...

I am not a medical practitioner nor researcher and have no understanding of the virus. I make no representation as to the veracity of this source lacking the means to independently verify it.
If you launch a parcel from Japan in the morning of Wednesday on a rocket (a suborbital shipment), you may still deliver the package to US customer - say, Hawaii, or even San Francisco - before the end of the business day of Tuesday. The motto is "when the shipment is really needed to arrive yesterday".

Hat tip to Michael Wallis, erps.org.
Wait until you hear about how much the population of white people increased in the 17th century.
He was interviewed by Gimlet, part of it is being a businessman

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/without-fail/brhvor
The type of equipment an airline plans to use for a given route is generally decided upon well in advance. The information is typically not that hard to find. Most (American) airlines will show you when you search.

https://i.imgur.com/h8k2IFK.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/7xfQpQX.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/7Ax2AQh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/z6YOo2G.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/QGxNFXp.jpg
It literally stands for "FLIF - Free Lossless Image Format", and the first sentence is "FLIF is a novel lossless image format which outperforms PNG, lossless WebP, lossless BPG, lossless JPEG2000, and lossless JPEG XR in terms of compression ratio."

Seems like they're doing a pretty decent job at communication it's lossless to me.
Open-Source CAM and CAD Devroom at FOSDEM 2020
I feel your concerns will only be addressed by buying Apple itself. That’s a peace of mind you won’t get at a lower price.

Otherwise how do you feel about the regular person selling you a device that might have internal usage damage not apparent yet on the surface ? I feel a button that is about to fail, a screen that has been beaten enough to be near its end of life are as much of more probable as a repair shop setting defective parts on its customers devices.
In this situation one can use her high IQ to ham her IQ test.
Well, people are having less children now than ever before. That doesn't mean those children are moving out when they reach adulthood.
There you go, surprised this is the first time I’ve seen this answer.
The ability to bear children is pretty closely linked with the ability to feed them. It's interesting you find that (and my pointing out your terrible opening statement) 'obviously wrong'.
It's not at all unusual for loanwords to get different meanings when they are adopted. Wikipedia gives this lovely example:

The English word Viking became Japanese バイキング (baikingu), meaning "buffet", because the first restaurant in Japan to offer buffet-style meals, inspired by the Nordic smörgåsbord, was opened in 1958 by the Imperial Hotel under the name "Viking".
That might not be a bad thing. Free PR. Other devs see you don't hire those kind of people.
The only reason people would choose a shady shop vs Apple is pricing. If no decent alternatives exist for repair, Apple can charge whatever price they want (on top of the hefty sum for the item in the first place). Having other vendors forces Apple to at least think keeping their rates competitive.

Apple will always exist as the primary place people go to get their products fixed... regardless if other people have the right to repair them or not.

Apple aside, we need to be able to fix and repair the things we own. That vastly outweighs any oh-so-shady non-Apple vendors.
In the Matter of the Emergency Decision Against: Holberton School [pdf]
I don't know that the populace has ever perceived the government as particularly competent. Powerful and dangerous if you cross them, sure--but competent?
Music Queueing In group settings problem
Hi - looking to gather some feedback about a problem and its prevalence / size.

The problem that I've experienced and am considering approaching is that of music selection in groups. For me, the problem is two-fold; when I am "on aux", I feel like there's a lot of pressure on me to play good music and decide the atmosphere. When I'm not "on aux", I wish that I could have some input on what's playing.

The settings I'm describing might be in a car, at a friend's house, or even at a bar. I find myself worrying what to play when I have control and asking people to queue songs when I don't.

Looking for your thoughts; have you felt this problem? Is it one that would be worth solving? If so, what type of functionality would you imagine a solution having? Could you see yourself using such a solution if it were intuitive, accessible and easy enough?

Thanks for any and all responses!

Gavry
I went to church.
The passenger would feel one extra 'g' from gravity itself. Meaning it would reach a total of 4.5G, which is substantial.
I just went through interviews with several companies, and a few of the rejections I got was that I was either too senior or too junior for what they were looking for! I think they may have just been letting me down politely though. They must have known how much experience I had ahead of time!
There's no real affordance for engineers to sue or censure the process.

I once did some interviewing with a broken wrist that dragged on me two ways:

1) I basically couldn't speed-code at all. Typing was inhibited for sure, but the friction point threw off my whole thought process.

2) Whiteboard coding was easier, but due to swelling, I usually had to have my arm atop my head or hold it in weird positions.

So by law companies are supposed to provide an accommodation, and what I often asked for was to minimize or skip keyboard-based coding since the injury clearly prejudiced my completion time.

Did companies oblige? A couple did, but several, including one who you could say was doing a "hiring spree" did not. At said company, I was shoved a laptop to code upon, which I told them I couldn't use without hurting my wrist, but the recruiter was like "IDK." After that interviewer I had a lot of swelling and the next guy was outright mean and made fun of me for having to raise my hand. At the end of that interview, I asked him "what are you looking for in candidates?" and he said "people who can complete their jobs on time" and gestured towards my arm.

So, what could one do here, file an EEOC complaint? Write bad reviews? EEOC complaints get basically zero consideration without tons of documented evidence, and if you lose your initial complaint then lawyers usually will decline to take up your case. I did write the recruiters and agency who connected me with this company and guess what? Nothing happened; the agency continues to make money feeding this company candidates.

So to be clear, candidates have in reality zero leverage individually. Even in egregious cases like these.
I also read that the project was pushed live prematurely for political reasons, despite the warnings from IBM that it wasn’t production ready.
I implore all of you to stop wasting your life interviewing. Spend your time more productively.
Yeah, and Apple using your personal data to market their own services and products to you comes under the ambit of what we are discussing, if you want to be really pedantic about it.

And stop acting with a cult like mentality that any criticism of Apple is an attack on Apple.
Python image build times was actually the main driver for us switching out of alpine. For example, pip install for numpy on alpine requires full c-code build (takes super long) vs install from binary on slim. We saw a 10x speedup in our CI/CD pipeline.
St. Andrews has one as well, apparently dating to 1927 too. https://books.google.ie/books?id=74PgZAHPw38C&pg=PA32&lpg=PA... It was on display in the Physics building, and I assume probably still is.
Russia interfered on Trump's behalf in 2016 and they'll doubtless attempt to do so again in 2020. Why would his administration go out of its way to stop that from happening?
"The number of cured cases was only 269, well below the official number that day of 300. Most ominously, the death toll listed was 24,589, vastly higher than the 300 officially listed that day." -- https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3871594

The source is Taiwan News so probably not impartial.
There's also an Apache 2 licenced decoder mentioned, perhaps with exactly this in mind...
What I hate about Netflix’s recommendations is how if you watch any standup comedy special, Netflix decides that you’re a huge, undiscerning standup fan and recommends all standup comedy to you, forever.
I've also experienced physical hardship which helped me to become far more patient and tolerant of physical hardship, but not at all more patient or tolerant with people.

I think it's a mistake to treat 'humility' as if it was one thing.
Zhaoxin Kaixian KX-6000 Shows That China Is Still Behind the West in x86-64 CPUs
In college, one company woke me up with a phone call at 7 AM to reject me. They were even in the same time zone!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22259683
If you can spare $5/Month, get a $5 Digitalocean VPS and focus on the side project. The hassle of setting up a home server won't be worth it both in terms of time and even possibly money regardless of the hardware you have.
Which fintechs have their own banking system? I thought they were all riding on someone else’s banking license and infra.
Since you transitively apply the credit of operating “robots on mars” to the atmospheric team, I will transitively apply my tax dollars and votes to me operating robots on mars. So all of them.
Here is a link to the original report summary, along with the full pdf of the report: https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-20-267?mobile_opt_out=1#sum... and https://www.gao.gov/assets/710/704314.pdf

Specifically the watchdog is the Government Accountability Office, reporting on the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
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Why does this media make such a big deal about a virus with such a low mortality rate?
The TODO list mentions optimization, so probably not on par with the status quo yet, I'd guess.
Barr Urges US to Buy Stakes in Ericsson and Nokia to Compete with Huawei
Bizarre. I had a similar experience. I was told "I didn't seem comfortable in language X". I'd been writing it for ~10 years, and have written a handful of native extensions, with lots of open source examples. It was strange and very, very upsetting. Triplebyte gave me this feedback. I won't be using their platform again (or any interviewing platform), but unfortunately, I'm sure they have sold my data and told everyone I suck. I had a bad day.
Here is another helpful idea, hasn't been mentioned explicitly: a therapist has (or has had) many clients. For that reason alone, even if they had no more skill at coaching than your average friend, they have valuable insights.

You might think that you are very unique, but often that's not the case. Or, at least, your behavior can be decomposed into patterns, and a therapist can often forecast where that behavior leads (and, if they're skilled and/or lucky, where it's coming from).
Very cool, hoping to see more of this in the future. Good job team
Craigslist scammers often copy legitimate ads from other venues as well. My eBay listings are constantly scraped and turned into Craigslist listings.
Dr. Li Wenliang who first announced coronavirus has sadly died in wuhan
If noone has sued about feedback in the past 10 years, over probably millions of interviews, it’s a fairly safe bet that nobody will sue in the next 10.
U.S. allows SoftBank-backed Nuro to deploy driverless delivery vehicles
You'd think that after two air plane disasters, they'd tread carefully
Isn't it the same as before? If 4gb of data was too big because you had 2gb of RAM, then the methods used at that time are the same you would apply for a 500gb dataset that can't fit in a 250gb RAM machine, right?

New issues appear when you have to analyze 2Tb with a 32gb RAM machine, but when the order of difference is the same, the issues and thus the answers are the same as before?
China’s coronavirus is not remotely under control
Or more simply... measurement is improving through higher volume of samples and sample over a larger period of time.
My understanding is that they've been viewed by many of their populace as competent in gaining substantial economic growth. Many other countries have had far less growth than China in the last few decades.
Shadier, more expensive, and less common. And that's the goal.
Why not formalize the process and include non-disparagement clauses that applicants must sign to receive feedback? Then risk of retaliation is reduced.
Nobody ever got fired for making things too complicated. How would the financier even know?
The decoder-only version of the reference implementation (libflif_dec) uses the Apache 2.0 license (specifically for this reason, I'd assume). Browsers shouldn't need to encode FLIF images very often, so decoder-only would be fine for that use case.
They have a polyfill for browsers:

https://github.com/UprootLabs/poly-flif

It weights 77kB gzipped which is a no-no in my book. Jesus, my current Mithril SPA weights 37kB gzipped. Not the JS bundle, the complete application.
What threshold of mortality rate do you think should justify media coverage?
Fascinating. The immune response seems to cause harm, so the logical conclusion might be to try to suppress it somehow. But the article points out that 100 attempts at dampening immune response have all failed: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/24581450/
Related from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12626451

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11238190

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10317790
It would be reasonable to interpret the shorter boast as making the very surprising claim that it beats anything else, including lossy JPEG, in all categories of performance, including compression ratio. As it turns out, they don't intend to claim that, because it's not true. It's probably impossible for a lossless file format to do that, even for commonly occurring images. (It's certainly possible for a lossless image format to do that for images that have a lot of redundancy in a form that JPEG isn't sophisticated enough to recognize.)
Only the encoder is LGPL, the decoder is Apache, web browsers only need a decoder.
Highly doubt any AI is being done by this shitbot
Clojure today has pretty good support in ALL major editors (not just Emacs) - Cursive for IntelliJ - is amazing, Chlorine for Atom - is cool, Calva for VSCode is improving every day, Vim-fireplace is a battle-tested tool used by many, there's even a way to set Sublime to work with Clojure.

Even most popular (and oldest) languages can't brag about being equally supported in all major editors, and Clojure can.
Perhaps the best route is acceptance. How can you route your narcissism to a public good?
> Why can't it be on the scale of 3 to 5 years

Where I work is an agency, so essentially a collection of already experienced designers, engineers, etc that need to be building quality products pretty much day 1. Any of our time we aren't billing to clients is just coming out of our cut.

It's a somewhat ruthless calculation, but we already skim billed time to do things like give ourselves 20% freetime to work on libre projects, train ourselves on new tech, etc. Some of us use that 20% to mentor bootcamp grads (me) which is the kind of help I want to give to green engineers - I'm a selfish boi and don't wanna lump a billable hour cut on top of that. We absolutely don't have time to be pulling someone in that needs 3 more years before they're engineering at the level we need.
It's like the second coming of Jesus. When a group says it'll definitely happen next week, they get breathless reporting. Then it doesn't happen - do they realise they know nothing? Nope, they're now convinced it'll be in two weeks time, rinse and repeat.

Religious movements have been known to spend a whole lifetime saying Jesus is definitely coming next week, only to then go er, actually maybe the week after. You won't find any where the group of believers went "We were wrong". That's hard for individual people and essentially impossible for groups.

Even actual scientists are not always great at this. Michelson-Morley (the experiment to look for the aether against which all things have absolute position) is the best example I can think of scientists going "OK, we were wrong" (there is no absolute position, see Einstein) but there are lots where all you see is incremental shifts to be gradually less wrong, one scientist at a time, nobody outright saying (metaphorically) that Jesus isn't coming.
Being a lead should not be a platform for showing how much of a star you can be, it should be a platform for sharing your knowledge and skill with your team. This allows them to grow whilst taking and take the work they are capable of doing off your hands. The only development work you should be doing is the work they are not capable (yet) of doing.

This should leave you time to plan, teach and review as well as attend the meetings and do the paperwork that inevitably comes with a leadership role.

Enjoy.
I once left a bad review on Glassdoor after a truly awful interview experience for a startup. The next day they called me up and threatened legal action.

Edit: Just for context on the interview—they had me do a take home assignment in Django, which I had never worked in. Was desperate, so I learned Django and completed it in a week. Went onsite and their whole office was a one tiny, dated swelteringly hot room. The interview was mostly around a bunch of basic syntax stuff, and had me implement merge sort. Didn’t hear from them at all for a month so I wrote on Glassdoor about it.
Study on daily snacking habits paid by the food industry [pdf]
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If we're going to switch to a new format, it would preferably support and be good at everything, including animation, lossy, alpha, metadata and color profiles.

What the first graph shows me is that this format is slightly better than WebP in one aspect, ignoring half the other features of it. Considering WebP is already far more ahead in terms of adoption, I'm happy sticking with that instead. It's natively supported in most browser and many graphics softwares, which is the real uphill battle for a new file format.
There are definitely options, but it's worth bearing in mind that contracts are for when for things go wrong. Are you willing to sue someone for saying something bad after getting post-interview feedback? Seems unlikely to help with bad PR, but I'm not an expert.

Legal might not be the right tools for this. Some industries (consulting, as mentioned by others) seem to have standardized ways to give feedback.
I'd be happy to take a look at some code if you like. noahjkingsley//gmail
It is hard to square 11% “sepsis with multiple organ failure” with only 2% reported fatality rate.

Somebody isn’t telling the truth, and I’d bet it is the Chinese government.
mortality rate is consider low compare to other major outbreak but it's infectious rate is the highest so far.
National mortality rate is 2.1% of confirmed cases.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-...

What would you consider a high mortality rate? 2% lethality in healthy patients is significant and it is "so far". We don't know the true rate yet.
> then the repair shop will be held accountable, not Apple

How much experience do you have with plaintiff law? In a product liability lawsuit, everyone gets sued all the way up and down the supply chain. And these aren’t cheap lawsuits, powerful and dee pocketed plaintiffs attorneys take these cases on contingency, especially against an ultra deep pocketed Apple.

Third party liability would absolutely ensnare Apple if a repair shop caused an exploding battery injury.
Well, if you somehow manage to de-beed a tire it's pretty easy. Maybe he was running from the cops. :)
> 2) There are plenty of closed-room office spaces available if you need focus time

This is key.

If I had the flexibility to work in one of these spaces regularly (30+ hours a week), I would be fine. Oh, and each of these rooms has a dual monitor setup with a docking station for my laptop, right?
So you're telling me Apple doesn't care about it's customers, employees, suppliers or the environment, just money? Shocking.
Used Google Ads Wizard, got account suspended. Google won't tell me why
So nearly two years ago, I signed up to google ads to promote my website. I used their 'wizard' / onboarding process, and clicked next, next, put in some sample words and hit go.

Next thing, my account is suspended for 'circumventing systems'.

This confused me, as everything I'd done was through their own system. I immediately contacted, and was told "we can't tell you why". Again, I was confused - I wanted to fix whatever the issue was. I asked them to recheck. "We've reviewed your case and can confirm you violated the policies. We can't tell you how though.".

Annoyed, and obviously stuck, I gave up.

Every few months since then, I get emails asking me to use free google ads credit. Excited (at first), I login to use it, only to see the reminder that my account is still suspended/cancelled depending on where you look.

I've twice tried to contact them again, and again get stonewalled with "you've definitely violated something which we can't tell you about.".

Is there anyway back from here? Anyone else been in this (clueless) situation and have a way to resolve it?
Cool, I'll look into starting a new mobile hardware company to compete with Apple. Maybe this weekend.

In the mean time, I'll also be voting against captured politicians.
> Some Hospital administrators accuse the surgery center of cherry-picking the healthiest and wealthiest patients.

You probably won’t see this place put a fixed cost on a 26 week preemie like my twins.
> Of the first 99 people with severe infection, three-quarters had pneumonia involving both lungs. Around 14% appeared to have lung damage caused by the immune system, while 11% suffered from multi-organ system failure, or sepsis.

The 11% with multiple organ failure is referring to the first 99 people with severe infection.

The 2% reported fatality rate is for everyone that acquires the virus.
what is the payoff for these scams?

Marginal cost for each new pursuit is essentially zero, limited to the ad cost (often zero, like CL).

There were tons of fake CL ads for the Super Bowl and NFC Championship games, asking as little as $850 for Super Bowl tickets (minimum real market price ended up $5000+). Yet people fall for it all the time.
Companies are not people. They do not have beliefs and opinions, they do not loose sleep at night. Even if they did, you would not be privy to them.
"around 11% of people severely ill"

Many of the infected are not "severely ill".
I shudder at the thought that more government is the only solution.
Hot take: you could hire someone who did absolutely well in the interview, and they could find a few weeks into the job that they loathe everyone, and go on a social media rampage.

Nearly every company has a policy regarding social media usage with regard to company-related content. If the negative comments get back to the company, that individual will likely face consequences. The "no interviewee feedback" is just another part of a communications policy.