skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The media have had their knives out for Lambda for quite a while. A reporter's instinct is to view anything that's booming with skepticism; and to lionize the underdogs. There is a certain tension and surprise in both takes (even if they are, in their way, predictable perspectives). Both of those trends are at play in Lambda coverage, which reveals the weird and systemic conservatism of the tech press.

The problem with lionizing underdogs is that, if you take a broad enough sample of underdogs, they represent the general population, and the general population has its share of jerks and liars. We can't assume Lambda's former employee is good just because she is less powerful than the company.

But the story implies, with its choice of verbs in the headline (Lamba "threatens" while Baez "comes forward"), which player the reporter wants us to sympathize with. They could just as easily have written that Baez "breaks her word" or "defrauds" the company, while Lambda "enforces agreement".

I deeply disagree with the people questioning whether contracts should be honored, particularly after you walk out the door with the cash.
The SATA power connector is the obvious successor. Most random doodads (e.g. internal fan controllers) have moved from using molex connectors in the past to SATA power connectors now.
The average age in italy is much beyond 50 (60 million population) and we have 3000 ICU in total. Yes.
Pretty sure Java and SQL will go farther
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I find NDAs rather problematic. The main purpose they seem to serve is to hide corporate malfeasance. It would be nice to have a public register for NDAs, such that one could determine how many are being issued by a particular entity (obviously without knowing the content of the NDA). If I was a student, and I found that the bootcamp I was thinking about signing up for was issuing a lot of NDAs, it would be useful information.
The new decree is probably a response to many potentially contagious people fleeing to the south. As I see it, if the draft version of the previous decree were not leaked, the final version would not cause so many people to run away.

Frankly, I expected that these measures will be extended to the entire country not later than by the end of the week. We're still in the exponential growth phase.
As said: only Google has the resources and motivation to measure the potential impact. David already identified a few places the bug might affect:

“I found this regex in the Google Cloud Console’s JS, Google Actions Console’s JS, in YouTube Studio, in myaccount.google.com (!) and even in some Google Android Apps. A day later I even found this line in the Google Corp Login Page (login.corp.google.com)”.
Discover's offering 1.6%.

More generally, bankrate.com offers comparison shopping for banks, and includes online-only high yield savings. It has a bunch listed at 1.9%, and a few dozen at 1.6% or better:

https://www.bankrate.com/banking/savings/rates/
The idea is to stay at home and only wear a mask when you have to go outside, say, for groceries.
And if it doesn't hopefully you stocked up on toilet paper and purell to trade in the new hellscape economy...
Maybe their real algorithm is so scary good that they can only use it for internal use. Didn't they also show pregnancy-related items to women who didn't even know they were pregnant yet?

Or maybe showing a wild selection of weird products results in people "brainstorm" other shopping needs, as a kind of anchoring.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring#Anchoring_in_negotia...
What a terribly click-baity titled article
I'm an engineering manager with a team of six and a cross-functional project. I seem to average 15 hours of scheduled meetings a week, plus impromptu one offs (firefighting, escalations). I find it quite draining: meetings and email don't leave a lot of time for project work. I like my job, though.
Good point everyone needs to be documenting why they terminate people so that if they accuse you of firing them for being this or that class you can slap a folder of documentation on the table.

Realistically being fired for being a pregnant female is a thing and being fired for being a white dude from Oregon isn't.
Insurance by definition is negative expected value (otherwise insurance companies wouldn't be in business). Great job hedging!
If you lived in countries like Italy, Germany and Russia, you lost everything when those stock markets were closed down in the first half of the 20th century.

This may be true, but then we're talking about such large changes that investment advice sort of becomes pointless. I mean no doubt that life would have sucked in those situations, but there's no investment choice that would have saved you either.

Like, if we were sitting today contemplating WW3 breaking out in 1960, annihilating the civilized world, the market going down would have been the least of your problems.
> Not to be a downer, but this feels like an offramp from our current system down to an even worse one, one where employers can now substantially cut back on employer contributions towards health insurance.

Keeping the benefit costs opaque by tying it with employers is what allows these shenanigans to happen. I can tell my insurance company to reduce covered providers, adjust deductible and oop max and copays if I want to reduce their compensation. But the employee doesn’t know the numbers so they can’t figure out if I cut their pay or not.

By decoupling this and making all pay straight cash, it would give the employees a better position at the bargaining table. Price transparency is always good for the little guy.
Not sure I would classify AMD as the dominant player in the field just yet.
CPUs are like taxis and GPUs are like buses. You have 64 people sitting in your bus all taking the same path. As soon as two people need to arrive at two different destinations (branching) this whole system breaks down. Eventually the bus must drive to all destinations. Then there is the time wasted stopping to load passengers. To efficiently utilize the bus you must load 64 people at the same. If you were to let people hail the bus like a taxi it would constantly have to stop to just load a single passenger while the other 63 people in the bus have to wait for that single person (random memory access).

A pointer can point to object of any arbitrary sub type in any memory location. Suddenly you have both branching and random memory access. If your program is branching heavily then you may end up with 1 piece of data being computed by a core that can handle 64 pieces of data at once and random memory access kills you because GPUs don't have huge caches like CPUs. The way GPUs deal with high latency is that they simply batch a large amount of work and switch to a different "thread" during memory access. If all your threads are busy loading from memory then you won't see any speedups.

Finally GPUs do not actually have 4096 cores. The RX Vega 64 only has 64 cores and those cores only run at around 1.3GHz. A Ryzen with 8 cores running at 4GHz with out of order execution can trivially outperform a GPU that is only using 1.6% (1/64) of its theoretical performance.
Wait, how does this even work? You can just walk in with any regular credit card and they can read all the information they need to charge you completely over the air?

Isn't that a huge security problem?
VP often means you've been in the company for 2-3 years without screwing up too much.

I was an intern in a team where everyone who's been in the company for more than a year was a VP.
There's nothing sudden or 'every possible contingency' here - they have had months to prepare for this exact thing, knowing what's coming and what measures would be necessary, based on the events in Wuhan. The lack of preparedness by the medical system is astonishing.
Hardly. Options involve a lot more strategy and tactics. Instead of trying to time the market once, you now time the market at least twice: the date you enter the trade and the chosen expiration date. When the expiration date is too close, your option could very well expire worthless before it can do anything; too far, your option has too much wasted time value, not to mention what if the market has recovered.

You also need to learn a lot about options, the Greeks, the IV, and all. With VIX in the fifties, it's very well possible for a trader to lose more money through the small stream of premiums paid for options than the market itself: the market will rebound, after all, but the premium once paid is lost forever.

I do not think options are appropriate for non-professionals.
Hey, when did language-ext get roslyn-based code generation? That's awesome!

Do you know if it's widely used yet? Any insights/gotchas to share? I see it's using CodeGeneration.Roslyn.BuildTime, I wanted to use it to make my own sum types library for c# for some time now, but never got around to it.
What are you basing this assumption off of?

For me, it's an enormous loss. I'm certainly not all users, but neither are you.

I think it's pretty clear at this point that the Mac user base has not reacted to Catalina very well. Upgrade rates are abnormally slow. A lot of that is just due to general buggyness (also a problem!), but I think 32bit is some of it as well.
At will isn't a sufficient description of a complex legal situation.
> Does it have problems with grocery stores?

Based on the video below, it would seem there are a few bugs to work out. For example, never pick up a whisk at an an Amazon Go Grocery store unless you intend to buy it. You will always be charged. [1]

> How does it handle fruits by weight

Fruit aren't priced by weight. This is also covered in the same video.

[1] https://youtu.be/Uutal2M4VXQ
Your monitor shouldn't draw 130W at idle. My 34" monitor is ~3W in sleep mode, 34W when on. Even my eight year old 55" TV only draws 90W when on.
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If you think Go is less useful than K, you might need to get out more. At least, it is actually used more than K is.
It seemed rare 3-4 years ago, but now Kroger, Publix, Walmart, Target, they all have ~6-12 s/c registers, sometimes at each end of the store (often so far apart a line forms at one, while the other remains empty).

There seem to be a lot of cashiers on weekends, but fewer overall. So many unused lanes, most of the year.
It’s a great idea to help small employers! I know small employers that want to offer health insurance benefits to be able to compete with bigger employers, but don’t have the HR hours or budget to deal with COBRA and enrollment and non discrimination testing.
> it took until firefox 3.6 to remove xbm support

Why would it be a problem to remove if only a small number of little-known sites used it?
There is disinformation about n95s. N95 is generally not useful for the public because they need to be fit tested to be effective. Front line workers needs them and use them properly and they are short of them because of the public. The public should use level 1-3 masks so they don’t spread viruses
It's actually not and the exact rules vary a lot by state.

https://employment.findlaw.com/losing-a-job/at-will-employme...
I tried recently to optimise a loop looking for a value in a small array of short integers (8 elements), not so easy, there are so many choices: tight loop (a priori not an optimal choice but use only one instruction cache line), unrolled loop, using cmovs, SIMD?
Comments like these always confuse me, because it makes the incorrect assumption that people who love Macs are willing to put up with Windows or Linux, or that Mac users will bother going anywhere else, en masse.

Millions of people are still walking around with millions of 2016-2019 TouchBar MBPs. Every person or business who genuinely cares about the Mac Pro is still going to buy one if they can afford it. None of the things you're talking about actually matter to the average person.

If they go with ARM, Apple will ensure apps that people use will work. You think they're going to scare off Adobe from making apps? Kill off Logic Pro? Stop the web from working? What would Apple possibly do that bothers a normal person enough that they would check out of Apple's ecosystem?
I'm a technical project lead at a small consulting firm. I manage the engineering efforts of two independent projects with team sizes ranging from two to eight engineers.

I have about 8 hours of regularly scheduled meetings (standups, sprint reviews, delivery meetings) with 2-4 hours of "as needed" meetings (client sync, etc.) in a given week, with 1-2 hours of company meetings, too. This does not count one-off help sessions and "fire fights."
On the one hand, you're absolutely right. On the other hand, if I'm putting off food or even general house/vehicle maintenance because of market conditions, my retirement has already failed from my point of view.
The probability for being in the presence of the virus is very low right now in USA, but it's quite high in many other places (e.g. Iran) right now and in USA in the near future.

If media can be pushed to destigmatize wearing of masks and stigmatize not wearing of masks, then this (combined with starting manufacturing large quantities of masks) would alleviate the overall spread of the virus in the post-containment mitigation phase, in which many countries are right now.
Yes, IBM "thinks" the future.
Other companies build them.

Conclusion : ideas are worthless, Execution is key
Ah. I was actually looking at making a similar plot of some other Bay Area transit agencies. Good to know about the Caltrain distances tho.
> you can't penalize someone for speaking the truth

The purpose of an NDA is typically to penalize someone if they speak the truth.
Well, you only have to time it 1.5 times because you can always sell before expiration, although there is that upper bound. If it doesn't look like it panning out, and you called wrong, you can get out and recoup some money.

You'd have to approach it more like swing trading than buy-and-hold type strategy, unless you're aiming for something like next year.

Presumably you are in fact bearish going into the trade. If not, you probably shouldn't have traded the strategy in the first place.
The relevant book for this is Measuring and Managing Information Risk: A FAIR Approach by Freund and Jones[0].

Both books are worth reading; Hubbard's influence on FAIR is noticeable and positive. FAIR has the advantage that it comes with a fairly built-out ontology for assembling data or estimates. The OP touches on the top level (Loss Event Magnitude and Loss Event Frequency), but the ontology goes quite deep and can be used at multiple levels of detail.

The calculations are not difficult, I've implemented them twice in proofs-of-concept, including one that produces pretty charts.

The difficult part, to be honest, is that developing good estimates is difficult and frequently uncomfortable and the gains are not easily internalised.

Additionally, serious tool support is lacking in the places where it would make a difference -- issue trackers, for example.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Measuring-Managing-Information-Risk-A...

edit -- Another good book in this area is Waltzing with Bears by DeMarco & Lister. A short, funny, insightful read, as you'd expect from the authors of PeopleWare: https://www.amazon.com/Waltzing-Bears-Managing-Software-Proj...
I don't want to say the "p" word and spark a huge social justice flame war, but a lot of comments in this thread are so obviously speaking from a place of financial advantage.

In response to your comment in particular, yes, I have done that. Not often, but it has happened often enough, and only a few dollars each time. Do you think people whip out Excel and keep a running tally of every item in their carts?
But this idea is completely invalidated by the fact that many foreign companies (European and Chinese) are listed in U.S. exchanges, which means that the investors can only make informed decisions about the their investment if they are awake 24 hours/day
We use Rover all the time and usually use the same dogsitter. I don't move off app because the money I'm spending isn't enough to try and get a discount ($25 for a night out with the wife, $60 or 70 a day if we go out of town). Plus they offer pet insurance and some other protections that are worth it.
Fuck them. Building retro PCs using modern power supplies will get ever more harder now.
Order groceries delivered wipe down all surfaces with alcohol. Avoid supermarkets if possible
Air travelers already submit too much more invasive measures. It's not like the airport is a bastion of civil liberties or privacy. I can guarantee you that the entrances and public parts of the bathroom (including the sinks) are already monitored by cameras.

Also, I don't understand how this proposal is authoritarian in the slightest. As written it involves zero coercion. The only enforcement mechanism is social pressure, a force that already molds everybody's behavior umpteen times a day to begin with.
believing that the only options available to us are ruining lives or technical regression is a pretty nihilistic worldview.
The key is they wouldn't have done it if a large enough number of users relied on 32-bit apps. Pretty obvious.

> A lot of that is just due to general buggyness (also a problem!)

This is the only thing you're right about. People don't care about 32-bit apps.
Are you concerned about the news out of Bergamo?
This is a drastic measure that will affect many. From a population standpoint, it would be like shutting down the Boston-to-Washington DC megalopolis.
You could not go, and say you haven't been feeling well lately. "I don't know if I have the corona virus, but I don't want to spread it just in case"
You mean 3.3V (since M.2 is 3.3V only)?

It's trivial to convert 12V to 3.3V tbh
I truly believe that you are "actively working" right now lol.

But, sincerely, good luck. New technology should shake up the existing players, not be an occasion for oligopolies to become even more powerful.
China has demonstrated that it is in fact possible to contain the spread. Please use the links I provided to review the data. Do remember that the Chinese built two make-shift hospitals in something like 10 days. Once a couple of weeks pass we'll see if Italy is able to replicate what China did.

Here are my calculations based on current data[1]:

Country tot. deaths pop. (1m) tot. deaths/1m pop.
Italy 463 62 7.46
Iran 237 83 2.85
China 3120 1384 2.25
South Korea 53 51 1.03
Spain 30 49 0.61
France 30 67 0.44
USA 26 329 0.08

Italy has blown past China which is why they've locked down the country. Iran will surely do so next if they are not already doing so unless they want a national calamity. South Korea reacted quicker. Spain, France, will have to act next, possibly next week or the week after, the USA will have to act in about 3 or 4 weeks assuming things remain the same but by that time it'll be early April and the weather will be getting warmer so who knows.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/q/304/true-color-gif

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Linux is open source, so of course alot of the vulnerabilities will be found and fixed. How many more undiscovered vulnerabilities does windows have?
As others have corrected you on point 1 below, I know from a first hand account of 1 medical supply company in the US Midwest that is out of stock of surgical masks.
Self checkouts allow paying with cash as well. Even more so than regular checkouts. I tend to just empty all of my low value coins in to the self checkout knowing a machine won't be pissed off about counting them all.
Sure game-changing big changes exist. But when someone says "this is different", it's almost certainly not different. Both of those statements are true and I see no reason to think we're not in the latter case right now.
I still care about macOS because it is still the most pleasant desktop environment to use, in my opinion. I love macOS's pervasive support for PDFs and macOS's font rendering. I also love the iLife suite of applications. With that being said, I've been trying out alternatives to macOS since I've been disappointed with Apple's stewardship of the Mac under Tim Cook, but I keep going back to macOS, though I haven't upgraded to Catalina yet since I still rely on some proprietary 32-bit software packages that I don't feel like repurchasing until I make a final decision about how long I'll stay on the Mac. I tried Windows 10 and I sometimes use it for work; while I can get by, the experience is just not as pleasant for me. While Windows 10 does have some nice features, including the wonderful WSL layer, I don't like the ads and the notifications to use MS services, I find the UI ugly (what's with the huge title bars in Windows 8 and Windows 10?), and the mandatory updates are annoying. I miss the days of Windows 2000, and I'm awaiting the day I can use ReactOS as a daily-driver OS. As far as Linux desktops go, I feel most productive with Cinnamon. However, I find myself missing certain macOS features and certain proprietary software tools (such as Keynote and Microsoft Office), and I also find myself missing the fit-and-finish of macOS.

Nevertheless, barring a dramatic leadership change at Apple, I see the writing on the wall regarding the future of the Mac. I don't think the Mac will disappear, but I definitely see it becoming more locked-down and more iOS like, which is a trend I don't like. I'm going to stick to macOS Mojave on my 2013 MacBook Air and my 2013 Mac Pro, which are my daily drivers. But I can see myself switching sometime around 2022 or 2023.
I am. My wife is a MD, not in Bergamo, though, but the news are quite worrying :-(
Untrue. Not all contracts are enforceable, even if one side accepted the consideration.
Both R-7 and Atlas SM-65 were difficult to keep in a state of launch readiness and were not capable of being launched at a moment's notice (unless a "moment" is between 6 and 12 hours). This was somewhat expected as they were essentially "version 1.0" of the ICBM launch vehicle. Later generations were considerably improved.
trucking is important for sure, but retail/food industries account for a lot more: https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/employment-by-major-industry-...
And the lawyer tells you something like "maybe we could win against them in court, but it will take a year. Even if they settle, we're looking at 3 months." Meanwhile, she's still uninsured, etc.
We have pretty close to instant transactions here in Australia but I every now and then I find a place where it takes 30-60 seconds for it to process. I think the issue is actually just the store has bad network coverage and the machine fails multiple times before it can send the transaction properly.
This is a good point - we can do a better job demoing how the product works before you buy. Although it looks immediate on the site, we don't currently charge the setup fee until we check in with our customers and make sure they are happily set up.

The reason right now is that we work with outside experts to draft and review the legal plan documents for every customer that signs up. Because this is such a new thing we think it's worth spending extra to be sure we are buttoned up from a compliance standpoint. This has an upfront cost we need to cover. Once we bring this in-house we can think about the pricing differently.
And if I recall rightly, the manufacturers made different products for each vendor, making it very difficult to say, "I like mattress X from company Y, let's see who has the best price on it."

This led to a lot of people having favorite hacks. E.g., a friend bought his mattress from a hotel company. His theory was he was probably paying a little more, but the incentives were better, so he trusted the hotelier more.
I'm not sure I agree. China has successfully contained the virus despite being the source of the virus. Containment takes an extra-ordinary effort but it's feasible.

I think the question is: Do you want to contain this and potentially stop the economy or do you want to let the elderly die. The west definitively pick the latter.