skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, small industry events can be a blast and pay really well. In 2014 I put together a crew who ran production for the Austin Technology Council CEO Awards show, it was a small affair for about 30 startups and the ATC, no more than about 200 people.

If you can get a reliable crew and know what you're doing, it can be kind of fun and rewarding with a great deal of technical autonomy.

As I get older part of me wonders if it makes sense to just focus on small corporate events to supplement the daily DevOps job.
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I mean if we're working on the principle that you take informed responsibility then you can just pass the entire thing onto ticket buyers who didn't even consider getting ticket insurance for their tickets.
Especially with the absence of E2EE, which seems the logical step up from SMS.
Thank you for posting this! I grew up in this era of computing and I’m working on recreating it for myself.

This looks like a fantastically good resource for inspiration :)
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New gov, same as the old gov?
Here's some solid data:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2002032

It's...sobering.
It will eventually have to if it becomes ubiquitous.
lol yeah I have a hard time imagining food service's actual cost (not what the hotel bills, but what they actually pay the workers and managers of that part) as being more than a rounding error, and still "sorry workers, can't do anything for you".
But you don’t care about false positives, only the definite negatives! I was trying to address the fact that the top comment on the utility of a bloom filter is covered in the post.
I worked at GE during his tenure.

We used to call him "Neutron Jack," because after he was done, the buildings were still there, but all the people were gone.

He used to visit corporate sites in a $20-million-dollar helicopter. Quite a sight...
>Universities have students organizing protests against right-wing figures quite frequently

Young people are just pawns in that example, the true "activists" are the professors/TAs hiding behind the students.
>We learned how poorly we are prepared for a pandemic

I've heard mixed things about China's reporting on it. It's more difficult to trust authoritarian regimes by default, but even good preparation can falter if there isn't honest information. Everything sort of followed China's information in the initial stages.

Everyday citizen preparation could be affected by social media manipulation (political manipulation tactics repurposed), but democratic government agencies wouldn't likely trust those sources, although they have to make sure their voice is the authority for citizens and not social media.

So can you effectively prepare for an outbreak when communication is deceptive/less effective/manipulated? I think it's very difficult.
Is it possible to bunch all of the newsletters into one email? I was interested to try out about 5 of the recommended newsletters, but I'm not exactly thrilled about 5 news emails per day/week. I have enough emails to sift through already, and my first thought was to cancel all of the subs :/
They definitely have event insurance, but that's for situations like if the entire conference has to be canceled. They have no reason to make a claim just a reimburse an attendee who cancels despite the no-refund policy.
That was quite an interesting read...
I was astonished by how awful their response to the criticism was: https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/16/reinhart-rogoff...

Personally, that just killed his credibility.
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You know, some of us have family with underlying health conditions.
I think it's a matter of the venue refusing to refund. They get to be intractable because they know that places that can host such events are few. You almost have no choice but to deal with them.

Not to mention, by renting to SXSW, they are choosing not to rent to someone else. By locking in the dates, then pulling out, the organizer is costing the venue money.

So no matter what, the money paid to the venue is gone. The organizers cannot pay that back. And like you say, they probably were only able to pay that much because of ticket sales. There's likely very little profit from the event after the books are balanced.

They likely know it would be the nice thing to do and that these are extraordinary circumstances. But, like you said, it would likely be them choosing to go out of business.
I’ve been watching a lot of My Little Pony so this could get heated...:)
>1) It fully stopped all the PR coverage of the Hong Kong protests

Did they stop protesting? Going into protest (crowded spaces, close contact with others) seems like a bad idea during a pandemic.
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Wikipedia link to the space program, this was from the 1981 and 1982:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera?oldformat=true#Venera_1...
You never have to read your own journal. The important thing, now and since journaling began, is to make sure no one ELSE can read your journal.
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Me too! With the exception of Outlook, I stick with Office 2003. I'm so much faster and more productive with it.

The problem with the ribbon is I find myself constantly having to click back and forth between different tabs. It's annoying, and takes twice as many clicks to get things done. Microsoft lost sight of the purpose of a toolbar: to make commonly used functions ONE click away.

When the rest of the industry followed suit and emulated them, the result was a tragic loss of precious vertical pixel space for the content I actually cared about: whatever I was working on.

I also miss the elegant discoverability of classic menu bars. I loved being able to open a program and quickly become familiar with what tools are available.

They did a great job surfacing keyboard shortcuts. Hints were right there beside the menu items, subtly advertised every time you clicked them. You naturally learned the ones you used most. I worked alongside a younger guy for a few months who was blown away by how quickly I navigated around my PC and got work done, for many sequences using like 90% keyboard and 10% mouse.
not a "wicked hahd problem"?
"Why is it that a 30 second radio ad needs to have "Paid for by the Candidate X campaign", but millions of dollars worth of paid online trolls needn't disclose a thing?"

I don't know, however it probably wouldn't make a difference (1).
It's all about psychology, especially in politics, where the debate has been carefully transformed into fanboyism for the simple reason that people who embrace an idea can still be convinced of the same idea being wrong, while fanboys of that idea will defend it no matter how much evidence one throws at them.
We want to hear what resonates with our opinions, education, etc, and when someone manages to turn us into fans of those ideas, then we're screwed.
When the ancient Romans conquered a foreign population, they practiced sowing discord among people, so that opposite factions would emerge then fight each other rather than unite against the oppressor. The term "divide et impera" (divide and conquer) means exactly that practice, which is alive and well in the modern world either outside the national borders (by igniting wars between smaller nations in developing countries, as an example, so that they keep being easier to control) and sowing discord among people within national borders through fear of each other, the external enemy of the day and the usual tricks, for the same purpose: making the mass easier to herd.

How do we fight this today? We don't, just no way. There's some hope for future generations though. I think we should act while they're not yet morphed into disinformation zombies, that is, in schools. What, for example, if kids were taught Carl Sagans' Baloney Detection Kit applied to the proliferation of fake news on the Internet, with examples? Just my .2 nibbles.

1: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2115421-fake-news-shape...
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> Amazon would like some of that action, too.

Why would they? Is food delivery a profitable business? I get the impression that all the current food delivery businesses are losing money and are being financed by VC investments.

And even if it is a profitable business, is that a business that Amazon would want to invest in building up, compared to all the other things that they could potentially invest in (e.g., growing AWS)?
I should have clarified that I meant that they're not equipped to consistently discern based off of patient interactions alone, which of the things their patients are telling them things that they read from credible journals vs which of the things they read from Elsweyr.
Sorry, but you seemed to have missed answering the OPs question... Why they should switch to Wayland? If there were any benefits to using Wayland, like performance improvements, etc.

Personally, the one real gain I've read about previously is no tearing when watching videos or scrolling fast and security improvements. Also now these Firefox performance improvements. But that's about it.

Are there any other benefits that a normal user would see?
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That's amazing how you seem to live in an happy imaginary world where everything is fine. There's not much to discuss when you're just making pretty stories to convince yourself. Good day.
As I have gotten older I try to recognize these when they present themselves, and proceed to avoid them at all costs.
Yeah, but was he an evil person or a product of a flawed system?

It seems to me there would always be a Jack Welch, albeit one of a different name.
Is this a good resource for how to efficiently do raycast collision detection? I might need to write a little script in the next month or so
This definitely does not come from a front-end:

https://twitter.com/jhyu/status/1234617361467990018
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Shareholder value is a perfectly fine way to organize a business, but this leaves the question of short-term vs long-term value. Jack Welch, and The 80's in general saw a very strong push toward short term profits at the expense of long term viability.
Is there any real downsides to pulling in external repos as submodules?
How long until they shut it down? ARM vendors are infamous for quitting before releasing their products.
I see this phrase used to describe maintaining a larger personal space, like one or two meters, which is what I had in mind.
Not a lander but NASA has 2 potential Venus missions in their proposed Discovery missions! [0]

In regards to why not a lander: I would guess it's because it's not really necessary? Orbiters (like the proposed ones above) can gather all of the science that's really necessary to study a planet like Venus. Landers are useful to study more micro-scale science to, for example, search for life (see the Mars rovers/landers and the proposed Europa lander). And orbiters are significantly cheaper and easier to make. Landing on Mars is really really really hard! I can assume it would only be harder on Venus.

[0] https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-selects-four-possibl...
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I just used this repo yesterday to create a chart of the ongoing cases on http://covid.410go.net

It shows that China numbers have been going down for the past 2 weeks. This is not highlighting in the news...
Allowed but controlled immigration is what I believe the result of Republican efforts has been. Sure, they probably want to decrease immigration even further, but they haven't gotten policy that far yet.
The difference being that such functionality arose from the fundamentals of how plan9 worked, whereas bash hacked in a simulacrum.
If you rely on the information they publish? Then no
Not only weight, but due to the breakable nature of glass you also need more protective packaging, and you still get more breakage than plastic, which drives cost up even more due to lost product.

With plastic, throw some shrinkwrap on them and you're good to go.
> The administration doesn't direct interest rate policy, the FED does,

Given that the administration choose exactly who leads the FED, they're not exactly independent either.
What for? the harm done by excess CO2 is global, not local.

CO2 is diffused across the whole world in a matter of months. Its climate-changing effect lasts much longer than that - decades to centuries.
Charts account for splits. A split does absolutely nothing for you as an investor.

Instead of one slice of pizza, you own two, but they each cost half as much. By far the most misunderstood concept about investment among the public.
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To be fair, Trump has been pushing the Fed around non-stop. They basically follow his indirect orders. All for political gain at the expense of the future. It's pretty pathetic.
I'm a pretty big fan of "don't hate the player hate the game" - it's too easy to look from outside and say X person failed society. With business, we love to hate on those who have extracted so much wealth for a few, yet modern capitalism is built on these tenants. If we went to prevent inexperienced, philosophically devoid people from running amuck, we need to focus on re-building the system, not vilifying those that utilize it. Many of these issues started with Dodge vs Ford [1] - yet I rarely hear folks talk about it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
Are you suggesting that C++ is developing too slowly? Others complain that it is changing too quickly. Maintaining the right balance is hard, but choosing a balance point everyone can agree on is impossible.

The mode chosen by the C++ committee is to favor development of library features outside the Standard, and then adopt the successes. That entails waiting to see what is a success, and relying on non-Standard library implementations in the meantime. The '23 executors design has been a long time coming, but is overwhelmingly better -- meaning, applicable to a much broader space of execution models -- than early designs, without compromise on performance. Other languages routinely compromise on performance, which is often the right choice for them.
Well we could save fuel by making the sodas slightly smaller to account for the weight of the glass. Technically not the same but it might do the trick. And we wouldn’t be recycling them, we’d be washing and reusing them. We can charge deposit fees to stimulate this, something that Coca Cola has worked hard to oppose even for plastic recycling. But it could be done.

In all I bet someone has done or could do a detailed study on this. My internet comment isn’t going to make this a law so you needn’t worry about my lack of research, but a real proposal should examine these factors.
Just a note - I appreciate this discussion, and your point of view! Thanks for having it.

Ease of contribution is a problem for sure, and it's one that GPLv3 was intended to address. My main point is that the changes from GPLv2 actually had the opposite effect for a whole group of developers.

Instead of encouraging -more- development, I feel like maybe it's just driven developers away and onto GPLv2, MIT, or BSD equivalents. Maybe this is intended behavior, and not an accidental side-effect. I don't know. But it's hard to dispute that it reduces the pool of potential contributors to GPLv3 packages.

GPLv3 components just aren't an option for a lot of products, regardless of whether GPLv3 is better for users (I agree that it is). I think it's really harmed the FSF a lot. With fewer installations of FSF packages, the FSF sees less participation and loses some of its clout. And that makes me sad :(
Does each individual application have to convert to wayland, or does wayland allow you to use old xorg apps without modification?
I never said he called the virus itself a hoax. He calls _reporting on COVID-19 and criticism of the US response_ a hoax intended to discredit him, and that is backed up by the quotes from the snopes article the other commenter linked.
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If you were planning to sabotage things in some sort of short-seller scheme, probably. That’s likely different from a hypothetical CEO accidentally lowering stock value in the process of fulfilling some sort of ethical or social good, since corporations tend to include an avowed code of values.
I blame CSS.
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There isn't even an "About" page saying who has created this site. And none of the facts have any citations to reliable sources (or any sources, for that matter).

Why would someone entrust their health to a site created by someone whose medical or scientific credentials are unknown? Thanks, but I'll stick with the CDC.
Covid-19 pandemic likely will infect 40-70% of world this year
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I've spoken to folks who've used it and spoken positively about it, but not myself.

I'll point them your way, to see if they can share their experiences.
Those numbers for China are likely not trustworthy, keeping in mind they come from the government there. They're still keeping WHO inspectors out.
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Aren’t the hospitalization rates something like ~20% according to the main study that came out of China? Also, the cruise ship cases aren’t all resolved outcomes yet.

Edit: link to China study summary below, but including it top-level here as well.

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/02/study-720...
Google Drive can directly OCR jpeg or any image. Just upload and open it with Google Docs.

Now I think about it, I don't know what you mean by "upload a pdf to google drive and download it 10 minutes later".

Uploading and downloading a file shouldn't change it at all, at bit level.
Plasma has too many knobs to tweak and their settings menus are too modular, so it’s hard to turn those knobs (there are like 4 keyboard shortcut panels for example). IMHO, I find it easier to be keyboard driven in gnome than plasma (at least, as of a year ago)
i've seen more than one article that at the least references this, such as https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-03-03/virus-...
Apparently I have RCS fully supported. I only learned about this "feature" when I found an SMS I thought I had sent was sat there with an error message. Found out how to turn it off, will never use it again. I don't see how anyone ever thought "upgrading" SMS to be like WhatsApp but less reliable and still no encryption would be an improvement.
I'm in finance as well. The regulation is overwhelming. i always feel like i'm working on something for external auditors instead of driving value and savings for the company. It is tiresome.
Yes. There is no "porting" with new SBSA/SBBR systems — only fixing bugs and/or adding quirks :)

On FreeBSD for the eMAG, we've had to:

- ignore a wrong value for UART access width https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=34622... (IIRC Ampere did fix the value in the newer FW revisions)

- restore another register after calling EFI runtime services https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=34699...

- fix some PCIe things we were doing wrong https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=34792... https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=34793...

- fix some memory map things https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=34958...
Mondragon is worker-owned.
We are talking mainly about UI here. They could have added multithreading to the old UI.
A fast spreading virus, can mutate at any given time. Making this the first wave of the real pandemic.
We are not worried about COVID, but a SARS-COVID in the making in some lung somewhere.

With authoritys showing how little they where able to handle one epidemic, trust that they would decently handle a real big one in the 2nd wave is not low- its none existant at this point.
And propagandizing and debunkery does not win that trust back. This is not a fear mongering issue, this is a real quality of government and institutional work issue.

How to put this discredit of a whole ruling caste into words. Its like the major of pompej trying to explain away a volcanic erruption as something good (ash is a fertilizer) because there is no just no plans for evacuating the city- the major cant even imagine the city evacuated.

The whole system (including the oppossition) displays a handicap (due to mixed up prioritys, whatever...), unable to perform simple tasks and use of necessary capabilitys, which other, democratic countrys (south korea) clearly process and display.

If there was the choice, im pretty sure there would by now in europe and america a majority for ousting the whole political caste- and replace them with capable government as displayed in south korea, taiwan and similar capable castes. And that view is bipartisanal by now.
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Straightening out the chain of liabilities would take some knowledge of state and local laws as well as all of the contracts involved. To claim the money is just gone is wrong. If they cancel right before an event, perhaps it is, but the conference itself may have some value. It could be sold off to another owner, for example.

If you purchased something as a consumer, and it wasn’t delivered, someone is liable. As others have speculated some of the conferences may end up going bankrupt. A 100% refund is unlikely but at least partial ones are due. Given the lost revenues from hotels, flights, and conference fee, this is billions of dollars. Large enough for law firms to work on it. On the business side, for losses to exhibitors, it’s all based on what the contracts say.
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