skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The mortality rate, according to the New England Journal of Medicine, may be far lower than 1% as we’ve been discovering lots of mild cases.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2002387
The nice thing about running Linux is that my FVWM config looks pretty much the same now as it did in 1995, bitmapped fonts and all. Can't improve on perfection.
Why would a tour guide in Belize know anything about the Inka? Had she studied archaeology in Perú or something? I suspect you are confusing the Inka with the Mesoamerican peoples in the other hemisphere, where you were.
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Hi eganist,

Thanks so much for commenting about this — I’m sorry to hear that you were caught off guard by our httpd configuration.

I can totally get how it can be frustrating to receive a protocol that you weren’t expecting, especially when you’ve just started to use our site.

Could you share a bit more information with me so that we can get to the bottom of this? For example, would you mind sending me the URL associated with your request along with the date that you accessed the page? Using that, I can take a look at our system and see how we can get this fixed for you.

Thank you,
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Custom attributes? Are you on crack? Check out the class attribute.
I am sorry to say this, but this is the opposite of what you have accomplished. You've just given lazy support reps templates so that they don't have to think, they can just copy/paste. I've been doing support for 20+ years in various roles, and I have seen what happens when people have templates: They stop thinking for themselves. It's not good. I wish you the best all the same.
Can I use this to automate file upload?

Puppeteer doesn't support automatic file upload (or drag and drop).

I currently hack the c++ version chrome browser and trigger file uploading with c++. Can this be done with this Electron version?
This is exactly GP's point.
And to be clear he was absolutely lying about that. Immelt was certainly a problematic leader, but a lot of the problems with GE happened under Welch. The biggest issue with GE was massive insurance liabilities for assisted living insurance which drastically exceeded anything GE predicted.

Well Welch started the insurance business in GE and took on a lot of these liabilities.

And while Immelt certainly had his problems, his mistakes were basically in the fact that he continued the Welch strategy rather than make new types of mistakes.
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Did the pilots in the 50s lug their own bag of clothes & shaving gear, on those flights with half a dozen stops to Australia? I always imagined this was simply taken care of by the airline, hotel to hotel, even if the pilot looked after his own professional gear. So I don't think their cash wages relative to porters are all that relevant. But would be interesting to know when this switched over.
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100k for NY. wow.

> We offer great pay

?

> Candidates must have worked/studied in US for a minimum of 3 years and be able to work onsite in New York City.

this sounds illegal to me. Is this some legal requirement?
"Science alert dot com" just screams reputability, doesn't it?
Indian PM giving up social media
Have you designed it to support subscription payments, e.g. I sign up for a cloud solution and need to pay a bill monthly from now on?
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It was actually the same with Gmail as it was with Search.

Gmail was just a much better service than Hotmail or Yahoo! mail, arguably their biggest competitors at the time. They also offered a ridiculous amount more space.

I think those two successes alone led a lot of us into a place of just using Google products by default for a while.

It’s an utter shame what’s happened with the company, especially with its privacy issues.
While that's true, the situation with the Nonmen is . . . well . . . extreme. It's far worse than mere weariness. The whole world of Earwa is much darker and more violent than Tolkien's. Sauron would be a far preferable master even to the secondary antagonists in Second Apocalypse.
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Alphabet’s X launches Tidal to automatically track and log fish behavior
Ask HN: What were your most important lessons learned from building a MVP
Hi HN,

I'm currently in the first stage of gathering some data for a presentation on Minimal Viable Prototypes and I am looking for some input, specifically what were your most important lessons learned in a failed or successful MVP?

Any input or resources that helped you is greatly welcomed!
Question for sivaram636: if you contacted a supplier about a problem and received a reply like one of these, how would it make you feel?
Yeah, but there's a huge gap between current RDA and toxicity.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h...

4000 IU per day would probably help a lot of people and is still an order of magnitude under the intake that's known to be toxic (60,000 IU/day for several months).
Ummm, plants are alive longer than “half the year“. Humans have also preserved foods for out of season consumption for millennia. Natives in California had plenty of plant-based foods in winter months.
The solution is simple: make sure there is always someone responsible for a spam call.

If I get a spam call, my phone provider should be liable as if they had originated the call. If they got it from another provider, that provider should be liable to them, and so on and so forth. (This would be done by voluntary agreement; only the last mile should be a legal requirement)

All I would have to do is then to report my provider and get the fine. They would then have to chase down whoever connected it to them, and so on and so forth, until we reach Ivan's Shady VoIP Solutions Ltd., headquartered in the Cayman Islands. If they don't pay, no provider would want to peer with them.
Google translate: https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&...

There's a designer you can download to graphically design your GUI.

Hopefully an english version is in the works.
The people who had their equity diluted might have a different opinion
> customer support heroes

What an utterly meaningless phrase.
Donald Knuth's Fvwm2rc
>Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Just a reminder.
Algeria/Tunisia/Egypt all have declared cases coming from foreign countries.
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Humans also sense radiative heat from a distance. The only difference explicitly stated in the article is degree of sensitivity not a new sense.
Folks wonder why not every error code is checked. My friend Mike Rowe said it this way: it's like having an altimeter in your car. So if you drive off a cliff, you know how far it is to the ground.
The Early Phase of Neural Network Training
It would be interesting to have a story set in the stone age where Neanderthals are the "normal humans" and the Cro Magnons are the elves, the lithe, agile, gracile ones with childlike faces (compared to a Neanderthal) and a love of innovation and novelty.

This... isn't conclusively ruled out by modern archaeology, as far as I know, and it would allow you to talk about "half-elves" while maintaining the notion that they're still separate species.
They have also made a very insidious change to their /ads/preferences page within the past month or two:

1. Entries on the list of companies that have uploaded your contact information to Facebook cannot be blocked by simply clicking an 'x' on their name. You must click for "View Controls" and then click on two additional buttons to not allow them to target (or exclude) you.

2. The list is in RANDOM order (as far as I, a user, can tell)

3. There is no ability to distinguish between blocked and unblocked entries from the main page. Users must click into each entry to check the status.

4. New entries are not highlighted or indicated in any way. Because of this, and combined with facts 2 & 3, users must now re-check each entry manually in order to be sure they are catching any new entries that arise.

I get new entries on a near-weekly basis despite now (but not in the past) using a dedicated Facebook-only email address and removing my phone number and all other identifying information from the site. Facebook is maintaining a shadow profile on me which includes data I scrubbed from my account and profile over a year ago, and they are still matching advertisers to my profile based on the scrubbed data. That scrubbed data DOES NOT appear in the "download your information" tool, either.
Are there any official plans for 2FA in Wireguard?
Too many slogans on your landing page. I skimmed through quickly and still have no idea what your product does.
The Limits of Nudging: Why Can't California Get People to Take Free Money?
> It would be great if all of the past content which is now slipping in to irrelevancy could be revived by the public domain.

Would it though? Go see torrents that are 10-15 years old and look at how many are still being seed.

Sure making it legal to distribute will make it easier to go on more device, but hosting content is not cheap. Web Archive is trying to host everything they currently can, and it doesn't seems that easy.

They are slipping into irrelevancy because there's something else to consume, that's all. Removing copyright may bring them back a bit, they would still slip into irrelevancy, because the same reason will still apply.

People want fresh content, that's actually a huge reason which push people to pirate because they can't wait for the content to reach streaming platforms. That's all.

I would love for copyright terms to be shorter though. As a native french speaker, there's so many translation from my youth that are lost in limbo because of copyrights. I'm from Quebec and to preserve Quebec translation of Pokemon, I had to buy a bunch of VHS and I'm about to digitize them to preserve them.

I think a reform of copyright that consider theses things should be made. If the content isn't available at all, there should be a way to consider it public domain. How can you consider it good for profit when a work isn't being profited on. After a set amount of time, if there was no way to consume the content in a reasonable way (because I'm sure company would simply say that they would be happy to sell license to the content for 7 figures), that it should go to public domain.
Just parroting what someone says... that's super annoying, but there is some use to something like it.

I do a lot of:

"Here is the problem as I understand it, X -> Y -> Z, when A, B, C.

Let me know if I got that right."

Then I go on into what I saw when I tried it.

What repeating SHOULD be is confirming that we're all on the same page (often with new details and specifics). What it often is ... is just repeating.

Sadly I found folks so generally frustrated by support that a large % of time they would be upset even when you were trying to understand. Some folks are so sensitive to repeating things back that they miss when I include new information / questions.

Support sucks, customers are frustrated so they don't really participate and hurt themselves ... companies devalue support, good management avoids / leaves support, and the whole thing stinks. I chose to leave that general business unit / area despite being well paid because of such things. I actually had engineering folks at my previous job reach out to me to encourage me to apply and return because we worked together well, I enjoyed working with them, but there was no getting around that I would be on the support team and I didn't want that.
Kind of a misleading headline. Those candidates are raising the most from tech industry workers (both blue and white collar), not the companies themselves.
It is interesting that rust goes for a demographic of people coming from scripting languages or functional languages, but it seems like its niche might be much more suited to the lowest level of larger programs or embedded work where people are using straight C.

Straight C seems to be used for transparency and compiler compatibility though, which could be at odds with rust's current workflow.

I think pragmatically using rust, modern C++ or even C, any concurrency needs to be done at a generic and separate architectural level that is not part of the day to day refinements and features of a program. I don't think constantly thinking about data races, low level synchronization, or even lifetimes more complex than being returned from the creation scope is ever going to be a recipe for long term success.

This is all to say that I think rust's safety strengths are greatest in areas of a program that should actually be as small as possible and changed rarely.
> personally I hate it

Totally agree. To me the effect is very similar to the beginning of a typical scam telephone call where the caller starts by asking whether I'm having a good day.
this is true, and we obviously have Model Release Forms for a reason, but the point remains that just because it's a photo of you, it's not your photo.
I've used `kill -9 1` to reboot on a single-user system. Perhaps that is what you're remembering?
A good strike hits the employer in the pocketbook. How much revenue did UC lose? Zero. Student fees are fixed.

It's the undergrads getting bent over the barrel, not UC, which is IMO why these strikes don't seem to have much public support.
But it can be a nuisance.
> the behavior is clearly documented

Disagree - the unfortunate interaction with kill is not clearly documented.

Do you implement error checking when calling printf, unlike every C codebase I've ever encountered which uses it? If not, you've implicitly acknowledged some error cases just aren't worth handling, or useful to handle. The question is then - when is it important?

PSAs like this one make it clear where the documentation may not have: Error handling fork() is important, and unlike error handling malloc where free(nullptr)ing later is a safe noop, kill(-1)ing later is an unsafe hazard that must be avoided. Additionally, it's frequently the case that the documentation is poor and would not help you even when you do bother to read it. Here's me previously ranting that the vast majority of documentation about atoi fail to clearly and adequately call out that atoi("a") is undefined behavior and citing my sources: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14861447

> so how could someone fall under the impression that this wasn't the case?

Continuing past my atoi example...

Maybe they looked at alternative, poorer documentation. Maybe they looked at poor example code that didn't bother with error handling. Maybe they looked at decent documentation that failed to adequately stress the importance of error checking (EDIT: I'd argue this includes your wikipedia example). Hell, maybe they looked at great documentation - about a specific platform's implementation of fork, which perhaps makes fork() failing fatal to the calling process and thus "infalliable". Maybe they looked at the documentation for their favorite language's wrapper of fork, which throws an exception instead.

Maybe they didn't look at the documentation at all.

Maybe they learned of fork through word of mouth when the internet was down on a system without manpages. "Can fork ever fail?" "Hmm... I've never seen it fail." "Good enough for me!"

Perhaps this lack of knowledge can only come about by foolishness - but human nature and statistics mean at least one of your generally smart coworkers has probably fallen prey to such foolishness.
You could buy monitors meant to be used as external monitors for laptops. I think most are 15.6" but there's some available at 17". I know that's nowhere near the 24" you use but you could probably carry an additional one. Plus those can be USB powered so you don't have the big hacked together dangerous AC power cable. They'd be lighter weight and thinner than a desktop monitor too. So you wouldn't have some Frankenstein thing that's missing the back of the monitor just to shave off some weight.
That's not really a weak claim: https://stackoverflow.com/a/56043694 (citations in Code Complete)
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That doesn't explain how locomotive engineers are allowed to keep engineer in their title? Given 1 literally states ` uses the title “engineer” or an abbreviation of that title in a manner that will lead to the belief that the person may engage in the practice of professional engineering;` it all seems like bullying from the org trying to lay claim to Engineer so they can collect more dues when "Professional Engineer" vs "Engineer" is enough of a distinction.

also 4 is directly relating to training certs for a "systems engineer" not job titles which does make some sense, microsoft still seems to use the title "software engineer" in canada for jobs

(1-3 are not what i would consider unbiased sources)
> never noticed that mmap is limited to a ~256MB window on most 32-bit architectures

That's interesting, but processing more than 4gb of data on a 32bit systems seems pretty niche, these days? Where do you find them outside of industrial embedded applications? I think even my long discarded smart watch ran 64bit.

Now, vfat filesystems will bite you (Esp for removable media), but that's also fixable with some other fs, like xfat or zfs.
Reinventing the wheel.
Or anotherway to put it: now public transport receive the same subsidies as private cars. With cars hogging free public roads, polluting the air with their inefficiency, and filling cities with subsidies parking
> "What do you all call the feeling around enjoying the work you do because of the mission and/or technical challenge and/or team?"

That's passion.

> "Or, the feeling of wanting to do high quality work wherever you are?"

That's professionalism, although one might also describe it as being passionate about behaving professionally.
For claims like that it helps to link to a source for the data. Making inflammatory statements without backing evidence makes for poor discourse IMO. I found this article that seems to cover the topic: https://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Dredging-up-the-tru...
I have a charger for the car on 240V, in our garage. It charges fully in about 2 hours. Mind you this is a plug-in hybrid, with only ~20 mi range before the gas comes on. But still that's lots better than swapping out lots of heavy batteries.

Swapping batteries makes sense for a car you don't own. For a car you own, I don't know. Of course car ownership is probably going away soon enough.
The people who make the decision about weather or not you should work from home probably think you're immune.
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I think it’s more and more looking like the mortality rate is lower than initially predicted due to massive underreporting of asympomatic/mild cases. Looking at the Diamond Princess there are (so far) 6 deaths out of 700+ cases in a population skewed towards risk groups.
I’ve read a few posts like this one but none which start from the absolute bottom like this, thanks Kyle!
> just happens to be created in a manner similar to the most widespread or powerful technological metaphor of the time.

I don't see how this is supposed to lend support to an anti-reductionist program. That we historically identified the workings of nature with the most technically or computationally sophisticated machinery of the time just shows that we intuitively recognize the power of mechanical processes to "implement" the structure and dynamics of other systems. That our computational metaphors get more sophisticated doesn't somehow invalidate the prior metaphorical reduction. All it does is further flesh out and substantiate the reduction.
Here's a reprint of an old WSJ article from the "Neutron Jack" era:

> EVERYONE FIRED

> Wall Street Reacts Favorably

http://www.angelfire.com/hi3/ideology/fired.html

Michael Moore used it as the introduction to his '90s-era book "Downsize This!".

Welch is quoted in the article:

> Jack Welch, chairman of General Electric, had more concrete advice for the downsized workers.

> "We've got 40 openings at our Tijuana facility right now," beamed a jubilant Welch. "I'd be more than happy to accept applications from any of our US workers who would like to relocate there. Just give our personnel department a call - and it will definitely help if you can speak Spanish!"
It may depend on your particular field of search. I have been using DDG for quite some time and pretty often I need to use !g due to the low quality of the results on DDG only to realize I'm presented with equally bad results from Google. It's possible that for my regular searches DDG is good enough, and the more targeted ones are just too difficult.
Ok sure bud
This is so superbad
Jeri Ellsworth (who is far beyond "ambitious amateur") managed the first home CMOS process a few years ago, and I think the state of the art has advanced to about 1975 tech: http://sam.zeloof.xyz/first-ic/

It's a lot of work, obviously, and requires a big set of interdisciplinary tools.