skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can hire a whole team of perfectly competent people and all it takes is one slip-up to ship the wrong version of a file. I have no love for the administration, but I find it frustrating that people are so eager to attribute every single error, regardless of impact, to one name.

If you go back one administration and search 'Obama clarifies' on google, you find the same thing. Turns out that press machines involving dozens of people are prone to human error.
We definitely need to fix a lot in this country, but then the only people that have ideas on how to fix things also want to tax options at vest or do any number of other insane things that will completely out weigh the good changes.
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There's always a "compelling state interest" when it comes to violating the bill of rights.
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The device is pretty good. It really achieves some tremendous stuff and has a highly polished user experience, so I'd say that just by the merit of its IP it's worth at least $200 MM.

I think their problem is basically timing. Nobody wants this thing right now. Nobody wants it in that specific form factor. And nobody wants to create content for a platform with such a high price point and unexpected future.

It's an egg and chicken situation. I can see why Facebook doesn't want them or need them since they probably have been developing parallel IP in their Oculus division.

Apple may be also very deep into the development and exploration of its own AR (which is already evident by accelerated development of ARKit).

Microsoft has its own competitor for years (Hololens).

So I think is really a problem of who might want all this IP and who can use it meaningfully to create a solid pipeline of AR products.

Again. Their problem is definitely timing. Consumers, content creators, and companies definitely want this type of technology. But not until they can have something with the same footprint as a pair of reading glasses. I think we are still very far from that.
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On the contrary - it's super interesting! I definitely want to come back to it and study this and thinking of projects I can use it on for fun and no profit, but also know that though I have analysed lidar data, I have very superficial understanding of the technical details of implementation. For me this is not just great as a cheap lidar implementation but a great working example to learn on.
Friend of mine went on a walkabout. Camping in his van and decided to live off just what was in his food bin. Basically a short half full rubber maid container. Lasted him three weeks.
sigh downvotes for trying to be helpful.
Ultimately, companies are not sold, they are bought. Without a willing buyer, they have no hope
Despite the pedantic definitions of the words, the point the commenter was trying to make wasn't about class distinctions, it was that they were perceiving it to be offensive.
These are not mutually exclusive statements. It probably can survive for weeks in rare cases, but if it doesn't do that often it doesn't matter.

Any method of transmission that infects fewer than one additional person on average are effectively negligible on the overall exponential curve.

So yes, it is likely possible that symptomatic people can infect others, and it is likely possible that a contaminated doorknob can infect people for a week, but if these things happen rarely enough, it doesn't matter. The virus will die out if other routes of infection (e.g. the more typical person to person transmission) can also be made rare enough.
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Any ideas on what the best clearinghouses online for used Steelcase or Herman Miller chairs would be?
I’m long enough in my career (and finances) that a Florida relocation sounds nice, but not to this place.
I have worked from home for nearly a decade. I guess I don’t know what I’m missing but I don’t need 1k chair. I sit at my dinning room table on a 50 dollar chair from Ashley Furniture. No problems at all. True I don’t have a desktop and use a laptop so I can take it with me to onsite meetings or move to another location like my patio, couch, or garage.

I’m not sure what I’d spend 1k on besides the machine I use to get work done on.
Keep asking them, I do.

So far they say there isn't enough demand.

I'd totally give it a try right away, well assuming 3 buttons of course!
Who's going to die because they can't fly between the US and Europe?
People having healthcare isn’t worth taxing options at vest?
Boise is dealing with this.

A few homeless shelters are "open", even when they don't have beds. They require mandated participation in multiple religious activities per day.

Boise statutes say "If a homeless shelter is open, you can be arrested and jailed for sleeping on the streets", and "but I don't want to be subjected to mandatory religious activities for only the _potential_ of a bed at the end of the day" is not considered an excuse.
Not malice.. I attribute it to DOW futures dropping 400 points within minutes of him saying that. So they backtracked as quickly as possible.

But I also don't believe this speech would have happened tonight if it had been a up day on the stock market. I think that is the only lens they are looking at this through.
I bought a brand new one and it's fantastic. The used market for premium chairs in my remote part of the country is non-existent. I certainly would have bought a second hand one since they are so well built.
Oh man, I didn't know he worked there... It would be interesting to read a candid retrospective from him ... although in all likelihood that might not happen for years if ever.
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Doesn’t matter if there’s no flights or boats.
Lived in Sweden for the last 15 years. Yeah, people out of cities have big back yards (people in cities have none), most workers eat out every day for lunch, shopping online (except for food) is pretty much the default. Denmark's pretty much the same.

Poke around https://www.hemnet.se/topplistor
With something like the dynamic language runtime, even code generation can be easy. Too bad it hasn’t been copied on other platforms outside of .NET.
Google suicide rate amongst transgender people and you'll find a much higher correlation.
I do this and honestly, it's not that bad if you don't have the mic near the keyboard. The headset mic I have seems to drop audio dramatically just a few inches away from my mouth, which is a feature, not a bug, if you're using a mechanical keyboard.
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Related:

https://codesearch.debian.net/

https://github.com/Debian/dcs/

https://codesearch.debian.net/research/bsc-thesis.pdf
I’ve been writing all my language runtimes and compilers in TypeScript lately, mainly because they also have web UIs. It really isn’t that bad.
SRAM isn't competitive for bulk storage with access latency >10~50ns. You'd just use DRAM cells and turn the parameters until they deliver your desired performance. The energy efficiency of normal server-DDR4 (non-overclocked, high-density) is magnitudes better than state-of-the-art SRAM, due to leakage. You _only_ have to add more ECC bits and more aggressive feedback in favor of refresh rate vs. response time.

It's not particularly hard to detect patterns that try to provoke rowhammer, and respond with even more aggressive counter measures. DoS vectors on that front are already to be expected, so turning Rowhammer attempts into something akin to a no-worse-than-2x slowdown seems an easy ask.
Mentioned by another employee in December, so yeah. https://twitter.com/CathyHackl/status/1205961097360093185
There's a parasitic fungus that does this with insects. It takes over, compelling the host to move to a location where the fungus can reproduce.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vijGdWn5-h8
Even India is pausing all travel from Europe for next one month. It's not about US/India, Europe got lot of exposed cases and currently it's the best way to prevent further spreading.
He misread it, watch the video.
The writing was on the wall for a few years, to me it is the WeWork version of VR.
Not everybody's working on web or something running untrusted code. Not fair to force people to pay a financial or performance hit for something they don't need; the world loses if peoples' scientific computations take 20% longer to run because of some ugly patch to an obscure vulnerability in speculative execution, or because the university can afford less computing resources because the only option is expensive ram.
I would think Google would want it, instant visual product search using the cameras is probably one of the killer apps for this on the consumer side. And oh, the data collection opportunities about the real world would have them salivating.
The ban is on those who have traveled to Europe in the past 14 days.
There was a lot of frustration with the quality of games for the Kinect. Some nice, playable titles for adults, more for kids (who are more tolerant of "pointless fun" like balloon-popping and chasing things around). But there were many terrible titles, and I wonder how many companies were unable to recoup their investment in development.

The Kinect experience could have been dramatically improved with a hand-held device (at least some buttons you could use to do grabs and stuff, and some kind of tracking looked possible). Several efforts along these lines were either canned by politics ("YOU ARE THE CONTROLLER" dogma that you thwarted at your peril) or by people dog-piling so many features into an initially simple product that the costs went out of control.

It looks harder to convince customers to use terrible VR gear. (I could be wrong).
That's ~670 9/11 attacks' worth of dead.

~350x the number of deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan.

~10x the Civil War.

~3x the yearly heart disease deaths.

~1 death every 0.75 seconds

And this'll occur before June, and something like this will reoccur every year (is that right?!).

If this thing is anywhere near 1% mortality, the US really is in for a tough time.

Yeah, you're right, that is stunning

I really need to call my folks now.
When I found that the hand sanitizer was totally cleaned out this is what I did since isopropyl alcohol was still available and cheap. Maybe if things continue to get bad some of our E85 fuel production can be leave the gasoline off and offer pure ethanol for hand sanitizer, but we'll have to prevent people from drinking it.
One of the hardest problems in VR has been locomotion -- how do you move from place to place in a way that's seamless and fluid? Even Half-Life Alyx struggles hard with this. You'll notice that whenever anything cool is going on, they have you put your hand on some pillar or controller to keep you from wandering off.

Beat Saber is probably the best app for VR, because it solves that problem by not having any locomotion. The world locomotes to you.

But that works well for an abstract rhythm game. I don't know how well that works for anything else.
This is also the plot hook for The Last of Us, a superbly-crafted game for the PS3/4.
a) is not only citizens but also permanent residents, which I believe do not have the same legal protections
I think it may be an issue with font rendering on different operating systems, screen sizes, resolutions, etc.. The webpage looks quite different on my phone vs. tablet vs. laptop. It's least readable on my tablet (Microsoft Surface 2) which has an insanely high dpi.
> Most helicopters fly without air traffic control, under visual flight rules.

So that's a strangely-worded statement. Let me unpack it ...

Almost all helicopters are not IFR-equipped or operated under IFR (including EMS), so they must fly under visual meteorological conditions using VFR rules.

And although they can fly without ATC facilities in some airspace, usually they use ATC for takeoff and landings to airports, and arrivals and departures to airports, and for position reports.

So what you meant to say was, "Almost all helicopters fly under VMC conditions using VFR rules, and communicate with ATC except when they are in an airspace where they're not required to.

But they do broadcast Mode-C and ADS-B at all times in airspace that requires it, which goes to ATC:

https://www.rotor.org/resource?ArtMID=493&ArticleID=1061
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It's one thing to criticize religious impositions on a secular activity (like addiction recovery). What you have just done is criticize religious people as a group, and claim that they are abusive.

Criticize ideas and policies; not groups of people.
It sounds like you have identified the root issues, and they seem quite interrelated.
Also good to point out - payors actually benefit from crazy costs. Insurance companies had their profitability capped as a percentage of premiums collected[1][2]. The easiest path to profit growth is just to let claims balloon, then use that to justify premium increases.

[1] Technically it's a cap on all non-medical spending, rather than profit margin specifically. But in effect it's a cap on profits, as there's only so much overhead you can cut.

[2] https://www.aeaweb.org/research/regulating-health-insurers-a...
I have (had?) tickets for a game on Saturday. It's not happening any more. I don't know if that's because of the WA state ban on any gathering of 250 people or more or because of another reason but I'm somewhat sad.
We're talking about basic food, shelter, and medical care. You don't think that maybe you could accept a small tax on your stock?
How is this contributing to the discussion. Do you feel cool now after a snarky comment ?
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If healthcare capacity in the US becomes overwhelmed by an exponential function, every moment wasted by officials now, while the numbers are still low enough to do something real about, will turn out to have been a moment responsible for many thousands of needless deaths.

I hope your flippancy turns out to be warranted. I just can’t get there.
Another theory: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/08/what-if-donald-t...
Yeah, that was the promise of Google Glass. And they killed that off before they got really into killing things off for fun. Nobody wanted it.
They are probably counted as dead from COVID-19 only if they were tested.
Tom hanks caught it in Australia. It's summer there now. Most of the southern hemisphere isn't developed, I don't think they're testing
I didn't hear his exact words, but even with a teleprompter, I wouldn't be surprised if he misspoke.
And so begins the War on Corona.
I feel that this administration is actively hostile to the well-being of the United States, but I've been telling people since day 1 that it's counter productive to make fun of Trump and nit pick at every error regardless of how tiny or inconsequential. At the very best it diverts attention from the actual problems with this administration and at worst deepens into the political chasm we seem to have in this country.
Used chairs seem to be plentiful. It seems that whenever a business moves office they just throw away or sell for very cheap all of their chairs and tables.
So banning international travel could have at least stopped it from reaching Germany. I think you are making his point while arguing on a technicality. I see no conceivable way that the economic loss of tourism or "business trips" is worse than what is about to go down in Europe.
Practically, yes, the states these days won't do anything until the federal government tells them to. It'll work out in a nationwide lockdown, but such obedience hurt us in february when the CDC had a monopoly on test kits and nowhere near enough capacity to supply the whole country. We seem to be making all the wrong decisions in this emergency.
Down a ways: My husband is a scientist. His response to my question about test kits: "RNA extraction kits are made in China."
Blindness? Seriously?
> But he did call it a hoax.

No he didn't. He characterized the criticism as a hoax. That is an entirely different thing. By perpetuating the lie that he considered the outbreak as a hoax you are adding to the problem. If you disagree, please link to some sort of news account that backs up your statement.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-coronavirus-rally-re...

It isn't really hard to understand what he meant either. The President's critics say all sorts of things that aren't true. He is constantly calling them out on it. He has used the term 'hoax' for a long time to refer to the misleading stories his critics tell.

Doesn't mean that there aren't valid criticisms. Just means that much of the back and forth is just hot air. There is no reason to add to the madness though by spreading more misleading information.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic -- North America, .7 - 1.4 billion affected, 150,000–575,000 died.

COVID-19 may be from China, but a pandemic can come from anywhere and will come again. You can taking chance on its virality/mortality.
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They figured out how to prevent people from drinking it in the 1920's.
It'd be pretty sweet if it took a pandemic for the government to solidify sick day laws.

Too bad money making is somehow above preventing others getting sick. People wouldnt show up to work if they didn't have to worry about their wages. I'm sorry but 3 sick days is garbage and requiring doctors notes is asine when your healthcare plan is shite. Not to mention wasting a day in a hospital. Companies can afford this stuff. It's not often and it's minimal to say the least. But God forbid a small business can't have someone for 80 hours a week at minimum wage!
And hell, a decent portion of SF at least land-wise is covered in single-family homes and duplexes, many (most?) of which are decently spacious and have garages. Even in cities, Americans tend to have more space than equivalently-situated Europeans.
Also it is entirely dependent upon if they get tested too. In the US, most people are wasting their time.
These chairs are big and heavy, shipping will probably be annoying. I got mine from an office liquidator ~30 minutes from my home, which I found just by searching for office liquidators near me that had inventory listings online. As a bonus, you can probably see it in person before you actually buy it.
Literally the worst landing page and copy i"ve seen

Bruh You gotta improve this
No. I only got it for the 2 extra thunderbolt ports.

I use to accidentally trigger siri all the time until I finally removed it. Now I accidentally trigger the mute/unmute button all the time instead.

The fact it changes based on what window is focused hurts it more than anything for me, keyboard brightness and media controls use to be immediately available no matter what I was working on now it's contextual. If I have to focus to iTunes to change the track I might as well just do it in the UI.
It's not particularly risky in itself, but what activity are you proposing? Most people aren't heading out just for a stroll around the block. It's whatever's at the end of the walk that's the problem.
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Just de-boarded and re-boarded an aircraft going to Europe from NY because of this „small“ missing „detail“ in the initial announcement. 4h delay and the people who de-boarded the plane initially, are not re-boarding because they probably left the airport by now, not knowing they had wrong information. Ouch.
If he tested positive after participating in practice and being with the team, I wouldn’t be surprised if other Jazz players end up testing positive too.

Good thing the Jazz-Thunder game was called off because with all the physicality and contact during an NBA game it would have been so easy to spread the virus to other teams even if Gobert wasn’t in the game.
I also want to see Coreboot shipping on Thelio. To me, OOTB Coreboot has become their prime differentiator. I run their Pop! OS on my Ryzen rig, but UEFI is a nightmare.
What's different is that with other products, i.e., those that have clear and understandable pricing, you can forecast the future costs and make a decision about whether it's an affordable solution for the particular product/business you're building. With Algolia, you can't.

Why would I want to build a product/business that uses Algolia technology as a key component when I have no idea whether the eventual cost of Algolia will be acceptable? I wouldn't, which is why despite Algolia's extremely attractive features, I have time and time again been unable to recommend its use.
Containers seem to take >=7 days from Germany's closest international port to Newark, NJ (practically NYC), last time I looked at routes and prices.
How so? Citation needed.

The website state:
"Fraidycat doesn't communicate with a central server - unless your browser syncs Fraidycat's settings to a central server."
So it seem fine by me.
Just because CV19 is a thing now doesn’t mean the US magically has Medicare for all.
Got a citation for those numbers? Another poster claims that the US suburb population alone is 175M, and that's roughly half the country right there. Add in the rural population (46M), and 82% urban seems not even remotely correct.
It's a virus, not a disease.

EDIT: Nope, fubar'd this; it's a disease. Thanks hexane360.

There is no medical treatment for most people; there is no cure to administer.

Stay hydrated, manage symptoms, rest, and monitor for worsening conditions is about all that can be done for the majority of people.

EDIT: Edited for structure.
You’re describing the opposite of flattening the curve. Closing the gates now does nothing.

I do not mean to be patronizing, but this is literally life or death and the math is very simple.

Today there are k infected people. Tomorrow there will be kn people.

If n is unsustainable, any positive value for k is equivalent. Arbitrarily large changes to k today make an arbitrarily small contribution to the final doubling.

“Infected people streaming in” means k becomes k+c. How much does reducing c flatten the curve? How much does it increase the time span of the critical last few doublings?

It doesn’t. That’s only dependent on n.

Ok, we can’t “flatten” the curve, but we can move the peak, right? How much does reducing c move the peak?

Well, every day we prevent k additional people from entering buys us one day. Remember, tomorrow that’s kn. Act fast.

If we could, this week alone, prevent a quantity of infected Europeans equal to the infected population already within the US from entering, that buys us one single doubling period before the collapse of healthcare. Maybe a week if we got lucky.

I will guesstimate that that is not a realistic target in fact. The actual benefit scales proportionally.

And next week it’s the same work for half the benefit.

What are you talking about.
you could start with getting the president and his sycophants to stop claiming its a partisan hoax and that it's going to go away in a few days
> Overall, social distancing is probably easier for Americans because our way of life already involves a good deal of social distance to begin with.

While that's true, behavior trumps lifestyle I think. I had a dentist appointment scheduled for this morning in San Francisco. I called my dentist office and explained that my wife has some mild-flu symptoms and asked if we should reschedule. They said that's since I don't have symptoms myself it's not necessary to postpone the appointment. That may happen in Jacksonville too.
> Spotify did not respond to Business Insider's request for comment.

They should probably ask Shopify to comment instead =P
On almost all the remote job boards I've seen (LinkedIn, remote.io, We Work Remotely, remote.com, etc etc), you cannot filter for junior positions. I don't understand why. If you search specifically with the "junior" keyword, you'll still get loads of senior-only results. Useless for someone at non-senior level.
During the Blackhawks game, the announces claim that the official NHL stance is unclear and they will be making an announcement tomorrow. They had 21k in attendance at the game tonight.