skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well there's not a very high rate of confirmed cases in the US yet. of course that's mostly because of our complete lack of testing anyone...
I actually worked on the followup to this book for the release of Windows XP at Microsoft. You can find it on Amazon if you're interested. https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Windows-Experience-Professi...

It was written largely by Tandy Trower (inventor of Clippy) and has many similarities to Apple's original Human Interface Guidelines though very different too.
I see Ampere eMag is supported by OpenBSD (https://www.openbsd.org/arm64.html) :-)

It had "only" 32 cores. I still find it a lot.

I guess it would be easy to port OpenBSD to the Altra since it boots from UEFI.
>This is part of a social experiment on radical transparency, of which I am the guinea pig.

Bravo. This is really incredible.

A few questions:

1. Can you talk about the impetus for this, as well as its evolution and development?

2. I presume the software is custom. Is it open source by chance?

3. People here freaked out and flagged this submission for including other people's PII, potentially without permission. Can you allay these concerns, if at least from an ethical standpoint?
Apple stock rebounds almost 7% to head for strongest day since 2018
> The major Cambridge Analytica push was not to increase turnout of supporters, it was to suppress and divert turnout of the opponent's supporters.

I didn't want to say it in a post titled tinfoil hats but this, the dark market of political advertising is very real and very dangerous.
You'll only know for sure in two weeks. It leaves yoi plenty of time to infect other people in your community
Since one can alias commands to functions, that does suggest that in fact mkdir -p is actually unnecessary.
Well from my understanding FreeBSD was using an old version of GCC mainly because licensing reasons. What's so annoying about the licensing around GCC is I see a lot cases where the code generation is still better than clang. Although clang matches GCC in most cases.
most insurance companies will play the "force majeure" card in order to exempt themselves from reimbursing clients.

No insurance company is solvable against a global pandemic event.
Automatic Differentiation Meets Conventional Machine Learning
Same data, nicer dashboard and breaking news:
https://coronastats.net
Genuinely curious, are there a set of a disciplines a software QA engineers has to have? What tools do they use? (I only know they do software testing, but this could mean a lot of different things)

I understand what Devops (a similarly amorphous term) people do, but I've never had a clear picture of what the day-to-day life of a QA engineer would look like.
There’s one thing the virus cannot beat: social distancing.
You're talking about something else. Hardware acceleration of 3D graphics is something completely different from utilizing the specific video decoding hardware in your GPU to decode web videos without hitting your CPU. Firefox has had generic GPU hardware acceleration on Linux for a while (albeit more buggy than on Windows/Mac), but this is about hardware video decoding.
please don't use code blocks as quotes, it makes them very difficult to read
Why? What should they name it after instead?
At this point I don't believe there's even a distinction to make, tbh. I definitely don't believe we perceive "objective" reality, our bodies have so much filtering going on (and different species have different filters, thus a "different" reality).
It comes down to what people that want to live in a particular area can afford to pay monthly for housing and taxes. As interest rates go down, bidding will increase on homes as people consider the monthly cost which is generally mortgage + interest + taxes.

The only real effect it has on first time buyers is coming up with a percentage based down payment. But 20% isn't a real requirement nowadays, but you will incur a PMI payment until you get to 20% equity.

But housing isn't more expensive, unless you want to pay cash for the home. Then yes, low interest rates aren't nice. But when interest rates are low, what's the point in paying cash? Someone offering you money below what you could make on that money in the open market is something you should take. Put enough down to give you a comfortable monthly payment (or get to 20% to avoid PMI) and diversify the rest of your money.
Items 3 and 4 seem like weak arguments. We are still dealing with operating systems from 3+ years ago, so moving below a 1 year certificate length wouldn't buy much agility in terms of new algorithms.
One of my fondest memories in learning to program as a kid in the late 90s, was writing windows 98 UI clone in QBasic.

I would screenshot the start menu, buttons, window borders, and various other UI components and try to recreate them in QBasic by zooming in and inspecting all the pixels.

I had subroutines to create windows, buttons, menues, various fonts, 255 colors and mouse support. It was coming together incredibly well given I had no idea how any of these were built. I had a working version of minesweeper and a text editor.
The damned version number should be in the title.
> ... it seems I managed to avoid both.

Unfortunately I don't think you'll know for sure if you got sick for at least a few more days. For COVID-19, I think there is a 5-7 day period where you can show no symptoms (but still pass it on to other people.) And even for the regular cold/flu, it can take a couple days for symptoms to show up.

I agree with everything else you said though; wash your hands often, use hand sanitizer, bring lysol/clorox wipes with you and wipe down any shared surfaces if possible.
> this is one of those once in 100 years catastrophic events that annihilates those who provide insurance against it and those who don’t take insurance to protect themselves against it because they treat it as the exposed bet that they can take because it virtually never happens.

They said 2008 was a once in a lifetime event, too. So what’s the next black swan that will unsettle the market in 2032? The Big One finally hits California? Mount Rainier erupts? The Yellowstone Caldera?

> The markets are being, and will continue to be, affected by these sorts of market players getting squeezed and forced to make market moves because of cash-flow issues rather than because of thoughtful fundamental analysis.

So it sounds like we didn’t learn much from 2008. Will we learn from 2020?
I am always surprised when software engineers have such strong opinions on monetary policy. Black and white statements like "There is nothing the Fed can do revive the economy from the Corona virus" aren't the best for macroeconomics discussions that rely on imperfect information and multiple related variables. Your wording makes it sound like you know more about macro than the best minds in monetary policy.
I've never seen more PAX attendees actually wash their dang hands, though. Normally if the sinks are full people just run back out (ew). Not this year. Almost everybody was waiting to clean their hands.
Wayland has been the default on Fedora since Fedora 25, released in 2016. I think replacing X.org in 8 years is pretty impressive, given that many desktop environments and too some extend toolkits have been tightly coupled to X11 in the past.
This is assuming that the fundamental trust in the market is still there though the global pandemic. It's hard to heal a deeper pessimism when it settles in, and the coronavirus has caused this, especially in the elderly.

I think the Fed understands stock market psychology pretty well.

I think they just didn't have a choice here.
Doing this completely undetected is actually harder than you think. Modern browsers check Certificate Transparency lists, and if the certificate is not present in at least two lists then they are simply rejected.

In addition to this you have Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) which uses DNS to tell what CAs are allowed to sign certificates for a certain domain.

There are services you can subscribe to that will tell you when a certificate signed by a (or anyone but) CA for a domain you want to monitor.
It's worth noting that they were down 4 years ago on March 2 as well.
> Companies deploy cheap capital to build new factories

Have we actually seen investment though? Or have we seen mostly stock buybacks?
The problem is most governments are already highly in debt. It is not that a fiscal stimulus is a bad idea per se, but it has to start during the expansion cycle by reducing the debt, otherwise at some point so much debt becomes unmanageable.
The Curious Case of Misquotation
Isn’t modern Skype using WebRTC that would be supported at least in beta with xdg-desktop-portal?
> The Fed does not keep interest rates low in a vacuum. There is an auction system that determines real rates. If the Fed is not able to sell all their bonds at the target rate, they have to adjust.

To my understanding, there is a real public market, however the Fed essentially manipulates by participating to the degree necessary to achieve the target interest rate. When the overnight repo rate went up, the Fed hopped in to 'fix' the rate. You will never have enough assets to compete with the Fed's goals. They have limitless capacity to participate in the market.
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The argument could (and should more often) be made that recessions are sometimes healthy and that propping up failed or stagnant businesses or industries usually only prolongs the suffering. It also locks up resources that could be invested elsewhere in less entrenched but more promising new growth areas. So I would argue that it is likely to cause the stagnation

To use an analogy from botany, its like how certain types of plants need periods of dormancy, but its actually possible to create or install a given plant into specific environmental conditions where the inducement of dormancy is prevented, for a time... But overtime, without the time to rest and regenerate, the plant will become incredibly weak. It will stop flowering or producing delicious fruit. It will grow frail and live to only a fraction of its potential age limit. Similar to this are how efforts to reduce the spread of wildfires only ends up with a far more dangerous and uncontrollable situation down the road and the 'debt' of uncleared deadwood piles up.

Just a thought.
I tried to cancel (citing concerns not about myself, but Austin), and got this response. The last line putting it on me felt odd.

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Hello,

Thank you for reaching out to us.

We understand your concerns. We recognize the disruption that the Coronavirus (COVID-19) has caused, and we sympathize with all affected.

Safety is a top priority for SXSW. We are working closely with local, state, and federal agencies to plan for a safe event.

The SXSW 2020 event is proceeding as planned. The World Health Organization’s recommendation is that travelers practice usual precautions. We will continue to monitor the situation closely and will provide updates as necessary.

Please also see the City of Austin’s Public Health Reminders from February 6, February 14, and February 25, and their COVID-19 FAQ, updated February 28.

We have a no refund policy as part of our terms and conditions, so we are unable to reimburse you for your purchase. However, you can transfer your registration to another person.

We hope to see you at SXSW 2020, but understand that the decision to attend is yours to make.
On the contrary: his points were exactly correct. We're dealing with extremely biased estimators due to the cost and supply chain for the Covid virus test which is basically only given to very sick people, radically biasing the estimator high. At the very least, the estimator is extremely uncertain, and anyone who works with numbers should be acutely aware of this.

We're also dealing with people who completely forgot how hysterical people were over the swine flu, SARS, MERS and so on, which ultimately turned out to be nothingburgers. And a completely broken mass media system where pretty much all sources of news are about as reliable as the National Enquirer, and significantly more politically biased.

Flagging this was foolish and a further contribution to the mass hysteria.
Total attendance for 2019 was 417,400: https://explore.sxsw.com/hubfs/2019-SXSW-Event-Stats.pdf (PDF)

I do think these stats may double-count some people, but there's no doubt it's a gigantic conference. It's much larger than most people realize.
Stop using Google Chrome
That’s an excuse. Of course demands will increase over time—all the more reason to build a system that scales well! Unix Philosophy doesn’t demand much: just small simple composable tools, each of which does one thing well.

So why does `ls` have a recursion flag? Why does `cp` have a recursion flag? Why does `chmod` have a recursion flag? Why does `chown` have a recursion flag? Why isn’t recursion its own command, that takes as argument the command to apply at each level?

Ditto untyped, untagged streams, which mean every tool implements its own custom UI behavior when attached to a terminal, instead of outputting tagged data and letting the consumer run it through system-standard data formatters.

This is not good—or even borderline competent—systems design. This is bullshit. Because the people who slapped it all together are bums, and the people who accepted it didn’t care enough to call them on it.

But noooo, we can’t change anything now; because “backwards compatibility”.

Protip: when you build a system that can’t evolve, that grinds to a halt under its own impossible weight, it’s time to confess “yeah, we totally ballsed that one up” and start over again, lessons learnt. Because maintaining that status quo is a tyranny: dragging everyone else down to the level of its incompetence, and beating them to death with intransigence. No prizes for guessing who that benefits: the bums who built it. And who pays for it: everyone else.

It’s a scam. Perpetrated by and for those who cannot admit they are wrong.

Smash it down. Because whatever comes after it should be so much better, the only question will be “Why the frell did we wait so long?”

--

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”—John F Kennedy
ThisWeekinDevOps: Weekly Roundup March 2nd
Also you can have so few devs when your value is in your network. Most other businesses' value is in their features. We have customers constantly begging for features, so we have to have more engineers to produce more value to our customers.
We very much do, at least in their hats as hackers (true computer scientists never cared much about actually using computers) there was a point where an online command prompt (one you could edit in real time, as opposed to having to put in a new punch card etc.) was state of the art of interactivity and software interoperability was defined on the level of word sizes and hardware registers, but we can and should move on from that.
I’d recommend two phases when writing notes:

1) dump everything into your notes that might be useful

2) organize and highlight the most important stuff

---

I’m one of the creators of https://bytebase.io and that’s where I take notes. We’ve designed Bytebase to decouple the capture and organize phases.

- In my first pass when taking notes, I write down anything that might be helpful later.

- Each note is captured as a “byte” - a short chunk of information.

- I then go back and re-organize by adding tags to categorize certain bytes and using drag and drop to move things around.
> most programmers are in an abusive relationship with their runtime environment.

Just pulling this out because it's a good sentence.
The Roaring Twenties came after the Spanish Flu... (& WW1)

;P

I jest, but I wonder about the difference between "natural" complex-systems-behavior recessions, and those that come from acute stimulus like war and pandemic.

Something like: is there a difference between people wanting to produce and consume but being "artificially" held back, versus an average lack of confidence in the markets causing slow-down?
These things are coupled, if GDP/capita is going up it means individuals are producing more. If this were just declining populations then per capita measures would be flat.
I suspect they paid for the 85k/year support package
Yes, but that’s not a particularly charitable way to look at it. It’s like the old world’s fairs - it’s a conference where everyone gathers to look at new stuff and say “whoa that’s cool”.
> At one point he embodied "web" culture

And is now the polar opposite of anything you might consider "web culture" today.
A5, needs to have a squared grid, and preferably "atoma" so you can throw pages out or reorder them. I have been doing this for about 20 years now, filling 3-4 of them each year.
You could probably reduce file size by generating your additions as a single PDF, and then combining that with the original 'form', using something like

pdftk form.pdf multibackground additions.pdf output output.pdf
This has been public knowledge for decades.
Isn't that the same for most open-source software[1]? To a Wikipedia editor going into a programming project to correct documentation, it might seem absurd that we want them to 'pass CI', 'squash the commits and correct the message column width to pass the code style', or 'sign the CLA'.

[1] It's a very prettied-up domain-specific language but it's still copyleft software.
Did you try to use WebRTC PipeWire for screen sharing?
What’s worse? Doctors who believe homeopathy or use it for placebo effect (2017)
The issue is when you have what currently is the top comment for this article, written in a manner which implies that the writer knows what they are talking about (i.e. /u/airstrike using terminology like "after spending more time than I'm willing to admit listening to every finance talking head out there").

I'm calling into question /u/airstrike's legitimacy due to not being able to differentiate between monetary and fiscal policy in their explanation. This is because, you learn about what monetary and fiscal policy are very early on, like in an introductory economics course. It raises red flags when you are unable to differentiate the two. I mention the spelling of 'monetary' versus 'fiscal' and how different they are in order to argue that it's unlikely /u/airstrike made the mistake because of a grammatical error or say because they were typing too fast.

I apologize if I sound harsh here, but I think it's important that things like these are called out. While /u/airstrike might not purposely be trying to do it here in his/her comment, this is exactly the kind of thing that leads to misinformation spreading.
I might believe the response from RH if
1) this didn't happen exactly 4 years ago
2) admission of this being the issue didn't expose them to a negligence lawsuit which could easily bankrupt the company
3) the original tweet didn't have a screenshot of the app building links to 3/3/2020 data on 3/2/2020
> The US is also moving into a demographic downturn, thanks to republican policies.

Please don't post partisan political comments without a source.

Edit: I appreciate the downvotes for kindly asking people to follow HackerNews' guidelines
You know the new way of software development is to throw code out there and let the paying customers test it.
and it's up to around ~6% - 10.5% risk for those with a precondition. If this estimate[0] turns out to be correct, everyone will either have been directly affected by loss of somebody, know somebody who lost someone, or are dead themselves.

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...

PRE-EXISTING CONDITION | DEATH RATE confirmed cases | DEATH RATE all cases

Cardiovascular disease | 13.2% | 10.5%
Diabetes | 9.2% | 7.3%
Chronic respiratory | 8.0% | 6.3%
Hypertension | 8.4% | 6.0%
Cancer | 7.6% | 5.6%
no pre-existing | | 0.9%
I didn't even notice that! OTOH doesn't everybody promote his values in some (hidden) way? At least they say so.

For me it is there, useful, and free to use.

Take it, or leave it, so to speak :-)
TLDR: Maybe I'm just railing against bureaucracy. I share my techno perfect dream at the end.

"you also didn’t list any pros or cons of either."

Thank you. You're right; I should do that. Long overdue.

Alas, I don't know how to do that.

The best I can do, at this time, is list examples of digital, paper, and hybrids which succeeded and failed. Try to divine RCAs. Then see if there are patterns.

I do have some initial guesses about best use of paper.

1- Organizational boundaries.

Like mediating communication between entities. (It slays me that scripts and referrals are done by fax, which might as well be black boxes, because the communication can fail silently.)

2- Legal stuff.

IDs, cash, voting (ballots), titles (property).

3- Short lived communication (semaphores), coordination, collaboration.

Lo-fi tools for brain storming, designing. Visible tools, like resource planning white boards.

"what do i do with my daily receipts?"

You say that like it's obvious. Of course we should design (engineer) away data entry.

Yet SAP Concur is still a thing, with wide adoption.

JIRA, ServiceNow, PagerDuty are crimes against humanity. Bending the work towards computers, instead of empowering humans.

I've gotten so much shit (from the larger orgs) the times I've moved my teams from heavy weight, labor intensive, error prone tools to lightweight lo-fi tools.

One stupid example: For weekly triage, we'd just print the bug list, and everyone (everyone) could vote, then cc copies of the list as needed. Voila, instant priorities.

The majority of push back is the style documented by Neil Postman's Technopoly. Some people can't wrap their heads around not using computers for everything. It's like the debate between ontologies and folksonomies. People who can't accept ambiguity vs people who can accept "good enough". (Just one over simplification of the psychology. I did pre-caveat by admitting my thinking is muddy.)

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I've long dreamed of a technical solution.

Some kind of hybrid of HyperCard & wikis backed by version control.

New instances of a CRUD form (both UI and backing data) would just be cloned, a la prototype based classes. Every instance can be customized, a la live editing. Imprint both schemas and forms with a version token, so the system can support multiple variations, so that orgs and evolve processes incrementally (instead of outright cut-overs).

I recently made some progress on bridging the gap between persistence and UIs. I'm trying to reorient my life to resume work.
Custom SessionStorage for Angular Security
Most big SV web companies employ SRE, not QA to manage and improve the reliability of distributed web systems. Robinhood currently has SRE positions open so it’s not as if they aren’t thinking about this at all
That's because it's not a monetary policy problem, but a fiscal policy problem.

If you insist in fixing your home with your car jack, don't complain about the results.
I'm mostly surprised by the number of pen input elements 95 had. I was still a kid at the time so I didn't have any exposure to more advanced hardware. How common was it?
The meandering paths that these different processor families take is interesting on its own. eMag and the Thunder X2 are expensive to develop but so promising that the product seems to find a new gear even when one company runs our of steam developing it.
That or they find a new C-Suite group that has the same opinion as me.
Also don't just rely on your own experiences. Not everyone is like you