skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you workstation does happen to be Windows, support-with-edge-cases may be plenty good enough for you to get your work done and if you run into a problem on your dev machine, it's much less of a big deal
Interesting. Never heard of that company before. What a horrid name. But their app looks interesting and is free for personal tier. I'll check it out. Thanks!
US says Chinese warship fired military laser at US aircraft
During high school I had an alarm. I would wake up within about 1 to 3 seconds of it going off, stand up, walk to the alarm that was in my washroom and turn it off just as it was starting. Every school day for years.

I became convinced that the precision of the brain at a task is partially a function of its reliability long before learning anything about machine learning.
I've definitely had the experience, mentioned else-thread, of waking minutes before the alarm, and learned through experience not to roll back over if I wanted to feel awake that morning.

I'm also old enough to have had an alarm clock with an internal relay for the alarm, whose click was sufficient to wake me before the alarm proper sounded.
The case numbers are being severely undercounted though. People aren’t getting tested unless they present severe symptoms.

If you look at the Diamond Princess, where seemingly everybody was exposed to the virus, the actual death rate was about 0.4%, which is within error bars of the flu.
Any responses from the US from about 3 years ago to between 1 and 4+ years from now are going to be delusional.
Orangutans are crazy smart. Wild orangutans in Borneo[1] have been known to observe humans and copy behaviours such as rowing canoes, using tools and even helping humans with chores such as laundry.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFACrIx5SZ0
I also came across M-Disc but iirc there is no real verification of the longevity claims outside of marketing from the manufacturer.

>The second choice is using hard drives (easily available) and every so often power them up and copy data to new drives.

I suppose the question is whether doing so could remain under the error correction threshold indefinitely, since there will be errors accumulating both during copying and over time in cold storage. If manufacture of new drives stops, it also isn't clear to me if only the data stored on them has a 30 year life or if the medium itself decays regardless of whether it is in use or not.

In theory I imaging keeping an unused NAND or even magnetic drive in cool dry storage should preserve it's physical integrity indefinitely...
Fair, although it has very similar constraints/goals to those listed above
I'm sorry, I was not trying to imply that it always happens that way, just that it (paradoxically) sometimes does and it has a name. I agree with what you wrote.
Apple disables Clearview AI's enterprise distribution account
I wonder how many boxes of masks "go missing" in a given month and if this will spike now that the resale price is so high.
This gradual process might also happen because compensation has to cover the costs. While some things have kept their prices seems to me some services have gone way up. I was just discussing that a hotel we went to long ago basically tripled their prices. Real estate is also up.
From the perspective of the government, this might be literally true. 0.2% mortality rate for people of working age, so if we assume an average of 25 more productive years then that's losing (0.002 * 25 years = 18.26 days) a bit less than three weeks of productivity per person.

Add in another week off for everyone who gets the virus, and there's less work disruption from having people continue as normal, take time off when they get sick, and go back to work than there would be from "quarantine everyone for a month", like China did in Wuhan. (This means that you lose >20% of your retiree population, of course - but that's not really a downside from the perspective of someone looking at Social Security contributions and actuarial tables)
I also live in Portland. I have a lot of friends in Seattle, and I would pretty strongly assert 275k in Seattle is definitely an outlier.
That's some serious dedication!

I would like to upgrade my setup to higher speeds, but the cost of 2.5/5 Gbps networking gear is very difficult to justify. My entire kubernetes cluster is cheaper, and it's much better value/investment.
Understanding How and Why University Students Use Virtual Private Networks
You're right, it was pedantic.
May seem trivial but the Dyson Sphere was the most amazing thing I ever learned about though Star Trek, awe inspiring in that it really is theoretically possible for us to build in thousands of years.
Random Toxicity? What’s Going on in @Benjaminwittes’s Mentions
It would be interesting to know what is the percentage of people that have a strong reaction vs. people that experience it just like a cold, which I read is pretty common. Maybe there is even asymptomatic people out there.
This would only further income inequality. Those with family funds to exercise their options and pay the taxes immediately will be at an advantage.
The Google employees that do their work over VPN can probably work from home.

Foodservice, janitors, and security, OTOH...
>I really don't see the point of encrypting memory this way

This is extremely useful for cloud providers that provide Virtual Private Servers.
He's probably from Eastern-Europe, like most Googlers there, not Switzerland.
Nothing about capitalism is "inspiring". I'm inspired by projects that lift humanity, not ones that worship money.
Consider that if I know how to get to my bank's website, and it gives me an APK to install, I know it came from my bank, unless my bank's server is compromised in some way.

I have no way to easily determine that an app on the Play Store actually came from my bank. At best, I can look at the install count, hope the app store does a half way decent job looking for fraud, and hope for the best. Maybe if I'm lucky they have some sort of verification program?

The idea we actually trust app stores from Google or Apple over a direct install from the institutions we want to interact with is hilarious, especially considering all of the rampant malware and fraud issues on the Play Store.
I think disclosing medical information is an issue of law, not corporate HR policy.
Tell the websites what is being done with the data/spreadsheet. If hacker news is being filtered to exclude domains, or people are searching for all things LISP, the admins could use that information to change the website. Try making a sharing website (like greasemonkey scripts) -- users post scripts and discuss what their trying to do, and website admins can comment and post changes or scripts, etc...
Ask HN: What benefit is there to requiring sign-in before browsing?
I was just trying to show a student something on aliexpress.com (that I thought would be useful for his project), and the website wouldn't let me browse product categories or search without logging in first.

I suppose LinkedIn does this, as have several other sites that I've noticed.

Why do sites choose this user-hostile approach?

In the case of the student that I was trying to show a part to, I just looked the item up on Amazon instead and Aliexpress lost a sale.

Go figure?
So you keep tweaking the law to make it more equitable, while still ensuring the appropriate taxes are paid.
> Software is also moving into critical spaces like aerospace, medicine, banking, etc. The thrust of the article is that we're trusting more-and-more critical infrastructure to a discipline that anyone who's worked in knows is untrustworthy.

"Anyone" who's worked in those industries knows SW can be done in a trustworthy way.

At least not less than other engineering disciplines.

"hidden corner cases, unfortunate tradeoffs, rushed deadlines" in uncontrolled proportions are a symptom of lack of discipline, either originating directly at low level (even if maybe mainly because of cultural influences, but I mean, what is not?), or under pressure from the hierarchy. The same conditions can led to critical failures of other kind of engineering realisations. One key point of critical failures resulting from hierarchy pressure is that it does not absolves the engineers doing the work, and some engineering culture actually recognize and teach that. Other cultures mixe everything in the same pot without even an once of ethics nor serious reliability thinking, and you get people maintaining the myth that software just can't be reliable, that the whole industry - without exception - is in an eternal crisis, and that that's even normal because the field is "young". None of that is true; you even have plenty examples around you, and decades of history to study. And of course, we must remain exigent so that the quality does not decline just because of a kind of self prophecy.
Fair enough, I would probably have asked my manager (who probably would have known I was in Italy). We do have APAC travel policies in place. Not sure about other countries. But if I were in the situation where I was coming back from Italy I would probably have asked (as an exempt employee who could work from home anyway) if I should self-quarantine out of caution. I would probably not have gone for a check-up if I felt fine. It's up to HR/Travel of course but things are moving quickly.
This may be the case for some but for me my alarm pretty much never goes off It's set for 6am everyday and I usually turn if off around 5:55
To me this (and the other ones) just sound too similar to Raspberry. You shouldn’t choose a name that could sound like a typo of something else.

Ryzenberry adds a sylable, so there is no ambiguity and the hard Z makes it sound more powerful, which it is.

The only issue I can foresee is you might need AMD’s permission for the name, because it includes protected trademark.
Around half of all workers in the US are paid hourly. "Sick day" means "no pay" for most of them.

edit: according to most recent data [0] it's actually 58.5% of all workers are hourly. Do they get paid sick leave?

[0] https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2018/home.htm
I often wake up two to three minutes before the alarm. It happens often. I just think my internal clock is just getting in habit.
How many times can you copy digital media before it degrades beyond error correction? I don't know the error rate per copied bit.

I think this is an excellent place for neural networks. They can preserve vast amounts of data compactly for many data types because they statistically compress high level abstract data which can then be used to fill in regions with high error rate, although if you did that at a large scale you'd probably end up with some constant error rate fluctuating around the average true value.

All indications point to the fact that we seem to be working against the unstoppable Force of entropy - indefinite error free preservation of data is ultimately impossible.
In my final year of university during the late 90s, we'd have different companies come in to do presentations on what they do and why we should work for them. Microsoft did a two hour presentation on how great of a place Microsoft is to work at. About a month later Sun came in and did a two hour presentation on how much Microsoft sucks and how stupid you'd have to be to go work there. We learned almost nothing about Sun from their presentation. After that I really started noticing just how much Sun allowed their business decisions to be guided by antagonizing Microsoft rather than providing products and services to their customers. I wasn't surprised at all by their eventual failure.
Developers have lost hope Microsoft will do the right thing
True, though if you close the office and let people work from home who can do their work from home, you also don't actually need the work from food service, janitors, security, etc. You just lock the doors and tell them to stay home. (I'd say in this case Google should still ensure those people get paid, though I guess that's not a guarantee considering how they treat TVCs.)
If you're looking for a book, Music: A Mathematical Offering https://www.amazon.com/Music-Mathematical-Offering-Dave-Bens... is pretty good. But you're nearly a the end of your recursion, though. Wikipedia ought to take you the rest of the way to answering those basic questions. More complex questions like why certain combinations sound good whe next to one another, on the other hand...
Ah yes, after years of trying to convince drunk people to stop getting in their cars and driving home let's now kick them off of public transit.
This is a weird way to go about things, especially since most "side projects" these days are open-sourced by default. Why not come up with your own idea?
I thought that someone had recently sent in a PR adding some convenience functions, but I can't find them now, I must be imagining things :(
China revela do que é feito o lado oculto da Lua
Yes, agree, expect would have seen more of an uproar if this was wide spread. Was trying to stay out the troubleshooting rabbit hole, thus posting the Q here in case other have observed the same. Still, with the other browsers proclaiming more privacy features and google somewhat begrudgingly trying to slow that conversation its hard to know what to expect in chrome without going deep into their roadmap.
> ps ax -o %mem,comm | grep dx86cl64
0.4 /Users/ron/devel/ccl/v1.11/Clozure CL64.app/Contents/MacOS/dx86cl64

> ps ax -o %mem,comm | grep Authy
0.7 /Applications/Authy Desktop.app/Contents/MacOS/Authy Desktop
0.2 /Applications/Authy Desktop.app/Contents/Frameworks/Authy Desktop Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/Authy Desktop Helper
1.1 /Applications/Authy Desktop.app/Contents/Frameworks/Authy Desktop Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/Authy Desktop Helper

No matter how you slice it, Authy is just an outrageous resource hog.
I was lucky enough to tour the Flugelbinder estate just last year. The gardens were breathtaking.
Linkedin used to trick people into thinking you have to pay to see someones profile when you can see it just fine by logging out. That is not against Googles policy. Not sure if they still do that, but I used the logout trick a lot a few years ago.
It might be special but it's not simple; it's vague and overly verbose, such that important information is buried and ambiguity is amplified.
>Had anyone seen death and recovery by age?

There was a recent (Feb 17) study here with mortality crosstabs (see ‘results’): http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/id/e53946e2-c6c4-41e9-9...

Case fatality rate (N_deaths/N_confirmed_cases):

[0-9]: NA

[10-39]: 0.2%

[40-49]: 0.4%

[50-59]: 1.3%

[60-69]: 3.6%

[70-79]: 8.0%

[>=80]: 14.8%
Hello HN! Will here, CEO of Culture Biosciences. Happy to answer any questions you have.
I don't think so. Isn't a bastard a child born to an unmarried mother?

In the cuckoo's child case, as far society knows the child has two legitimately married parents.
Not that the authors would claim any differently, but I am going to go out on a limb and state that RDBMS Horror Stories are more frequent, and with higher overall impact.

Purely from a SQLi point of view we have: https://codecurmudgeon.com/wp/sql-injection-hall-of-shame/
You want a citation for the claim that many people are literate and/or can visually process images?
Valencia! Imagine 16-20th or 20th-24th as pedestrian only. Mission and Guerrero can handle the traffic and there’s no need for cars there.
I'm also interested in this question of "Special $LANG" for other languages. For German learners, DW has a daily podcast Langsam gesprochene Nachrichten ("News read slowly"), which I have found invaluable.

https://m.dw.com/de/deutsch-lernen/nachrichten/s-8030
Yep...not to mention all discs are ultimately made of plastic which is subject to environmental degradation - primarily oxidation from atmosphere and UV damage, both which can lead to yellowing/clouding of the transparent medium, and eventually brittleness and fracture.
Even apart from undercounting of case #s, we know that the # of severe cases is 5% upper bound which is much more likely to be accurate and the deaths are a fraction of that so I would bet on the number being on the lower end than the higher end. Even a 1-2% mortality rate is fairly substantial tho -- 5-10x as deadly as flu.
Great examples of the fallacy Don Norman points out in "The design of everyday things":

Assigning "human error" and declaring the analysis done, not considering design may be at fault.

Just Ctrl+F the keywords, the exact phrase is used three times and paraphrased a dozen time more. My favorite is “It was basically human error… there’s nothing wrong with our accounting systems”. If your spreadsheet has billion-dollar impact, why is there no 4-eyes-principle? Why do humans even have a hand in data transfer? No sanity checks? No automation? Stop blaming the user!
Sure, but the argument was that folks would reject it, when they in fact have explicitly added it. Its effectiveness is another story; not only along the axis you were talking about, but also others, but that's a separate conversation.
The article says the plane was flying in the Pacific ocean and clearly close to the Chinese warship. The Pacific ocean is huge and more context on where in the Pacific Ocean would be great. Was it close to China or Australia or Guam?
In truth, drunk people need to be at home and not in public. Public drunkenness is the violation, compounded by driving. Adding public transit is not at all unreasonable.

Nobody has the 'right' to be a slobbering mess-making drunk in public. At all.
Well, there are a lot of other assumptions embedded in that comparison too. What's the raspberry pi's availability like vs Lambda?
> there's no practical way to stick an atmosphere, much less a civilization composed of life forms that depend on gravity, to the inside of the sphere

Why not spin the sphere? Given the immense surface area, it wouldn't even matter that the centripetal force would only be strongest around the 'equator'.

So, the plan would be:

1. Create a giant rotating sphere around our Sun.

2. Create a ring world around the 'equator' of the inside of the sphere (i.e. a ring of walls high enough to hold in the resident's preferred atmosphere).

3. Install solar panels everywhere else.

4. Profit!
my understanding is that masks are sold out at standard suppliers and have been for a while

Where I live it's hit-and-miss, but not as bad as it used to be.

When this first started, masks were hard to come by because people were buying out stores to ship to relatives in China.

Today I've been to three places, and two of them had masks. The third was out of hand sanitizer.
Infectious diseases don't care about that either. I'm not suggesting broadcasting the person's name, but I am sure you can think of mitigation measures that might be applicable and wise even if they increased the possibility of identification by inference.
So, a 20% chance of a severe case (which means hospitalization as far as I know) is no big deal?

Also am I reading that correctly that they are including pneumonia in the "mild or moderate" category?
Docopt is indeed popular. By virtue of having it creating its own language, its API is naturally "transcendent." :)

I've used it in Ruby, for which IMO it is the best available choice.

But there is only so much you can express in docopt, and I quickly begin missing the flexibility of a "real" API and argparse.
Yeah, that's another theory, that it's "bi-phasic" and comes out of remission, but there's less evidence for that than for "you can get infected twice".
Yeah wtf, the original was not easy at all to read. Also re your version I would use medicine instead of drug to avoid confusion.
The Makerpad data is incorrect. The source: https://www.makerpad.co/blog/building-without-code-and-reach... is referring to a different company generating 55k/mo revenue, not Makerpad.
In a roundabout kind of way, if you find the solution first, its called learning and if your mindset is aligned to this article, its defined as research.

Though in a monkey see, monkey do world, there is no shortage of mimicked expertise and flattery, so plan accordingly.
Seems like a good time to work from home. I mean if Google can't do it then ... ?
Most expensive school building in the United States goes over budget
Googler working in Zurich here.

FWIW all Google Zurich leads and my whole management chain insisted that people having any kind of symptom (in general, and not just for the Coronavirus) should rest at home & see the doctor to recover and prevent infecting other Googlers.

They also insisted that even "healthy Googlers" feeling insecure coming to work can fully work from home in the coming weeks, and told managers that they shouldn't prevent their managees from doing so.

This company has just always been super comprehensive regarding health conditions. If you don't feel good and just want to go back home to rest or take a 2h nap in the sleeping room you can just do it without any justification. Whenever I discuss this with friends none of them has the same freedom and trust that Google gives us.

Wishing the best to everyone in this scary period.
Honestly, paper lasts thousands of years. Maybe the solution is microprint and OCR? How long does microfiche last?
Quarantine? A non-governmental person/entity doesn't have legal power to detain anyone in the U.S., including for the purpose of quarantining them. See https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/aboutlawsregulationsquarantin...

The only way you could legally be physically detained in quarantine at a conference would be by a sworn offer (e.g. a police officer) acting on a government order.
You’re correct that funding wasn’t impacted. I was wrong about that.

However he did indeed cut the people tasked to deal with pandemics.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/31/coronavirus-china-trump...

> But other White House efforts included reducing $15 billion in national health spending and cutting the global disease-fighting operational budgets of the CDC, NSC, DHS, and HHS. And the government’s $30 million Complex Crises Fund was eliminated.

> In May 2018, Trump ordered the NSC’s entire global health security unit shut down, calling for reassignment of Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer and dissolution of his team inside the agency. The month before, then-White House National Security Advisor John Bolton pressured Ziemer’s DHS counterpart, Tom Bossert, to resign along with his team. Neither the NSC nor DHS epidemic teams have been replaced. The global health section of the CDC was so drastically cut in 2018 that much of its staff was laid off and the number of countries it was working in was reduced from 49 to merely 10.
Disagree.

There are whole classes of UI errors that are only reproducible if you use the same look and feel as the customer. Black text on a black background being reported as data loss or missing functionality, for starters, but there are many others.
India: Client Kidnaps Freelancer for Not Completing Task; Police Rescues Him
I work in the US and my company instituted the same rule.
How Apple could navigate its touchy Touch Bar dilemma