skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And why are tellers not bankers? They perform one of the main public facing banking tasks/services.

This question/claim only makes any sense if you're willing to consider that the cleaning staff might deserve to be called "bankers" too.

Tellers don't provide any banking services. They can't agree to hold your money or loan you money. They don't provide any advice. They're an implementation detail of the banking agreement you set up with an actual banker, a piece of plumbing that happens to be how you move money into or out of your account. Hence the popularity of automatic teller machines.
It isn't inevitable by any means, fish shell scripting is clean and pleasant.

I use fish as my command line, but I still write scripts in bash, even personal ones I only expect to use on my own machine. Just out of a vague sense that I might reuse it, or it might escape confinement, or something.
This is the distinction between staff and line. Line produces, staff is overhead. Easy to cut staff but not line, as cutting line reduces production.

Problem is in some industries, staff have more political power than line, as we see in higher-ed and medicine. This upsets the balance and results in less/poorer quality production from line.
To me, the miracles I care about are not unusual and paranormal phenomenons, but simply what is around us: life.

Life is a miracle of nature.
I had a tweet from Flightradar24 show up on my timeline earlier:

https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1238102765081186306...

It kinda hit me immediately why this whole containment thing wasn't really working out. And this was March 12! How on earth do we tell people to not go outside, but months after it all started there are still thousands of airplanes flying.

Honorary mention for the countries that sent military transport airplanes to rescue 100 citizens from China like an asteroid was about to hit it and kept them in barracks for weeks, but have this kind of air traffic streaming in.
Busses are great in NYC. I take them regularly. They are nice and clean and fairly quick. They're not always as fast as Uber but they're much cheaper, so you have a tradeoff. And, sometimes they are faster than Uber, since they have their own lane in some places!
There's a lot of crappy office politics that circles around access to daylight. You invariably have a mismatch between Valuable Employees and Valuable deskspace, jockying for position becomes a distraction and having multiple grades of desk just kind of beats the newer employees about the head and shoulders with how little they matter.

It is, in a word, fractious.

The best solution I've seen for this is to keep most of the windows in public spaces. If I go for water or to the bathroom, I should get daylight. Impromptu meeting spaces and lunch spots: daylight.

The thing is, developers say they want daylight at their desk, and then they realize that they can't actually work in natural light (this has gotten better in just the last few years, but I've been watching this happen for 20), and so the people who 'own' the windows end up closing the blinds to work in peace.

The worse this ever got, we had the top floor of a building and so many blinds were closed all day that we might as well have rented space in the basement for half the price/ft²

So now if I am to get any daylight it is at the sole discretion of someone already on an ego trip? No thank you.

Move the desks so that people can see daylight but aren't in daylight. All the windows stay open, your AC bills are a little lower, and the steepness of the pecking order is not quite so brazen.
How is "simple role differentiation" not a description of inequality?

When you ask that question, you are doing this thing where you don't try to address the concern people actually have, which is about what an equitable employer-employee relationship looks like, not "role differentiation".
> Then next year I enrolled in AP Comp Sci - hardcore turbo c++.

Funny enough, AP Comp Sci went the other direction in the early 2000s, switching from C++ to Java precisely because it was too hardcore for the average high school student.
And the popular alternative of taking the subway is definitely not an improvement in terms of hearing loss.
I know that at least the Google Pixel devices only charge when plugged in. The user has to manually turn on USB data every time they plug in. USB debugging is also disabled by default.
This real bullshit – particularly given that the private companies base their forecasts (indirectly) on the observations that national meteorological services such as Deutsche Wetterdienst collect and provide for free as scientific data. These observations are used as the input data for the same Numeric Weather Prediction models that the commercial companies want to make money from.

Neoliberals want to have their cake and eat it. Unfortunately, neoliberalism is currently (over the past couple of decades, with a small stumble in 2008) the dominant ideology within European politics.
CMD is the worst language I ever saw. It's full of hacks for simplest tasks. The only reason I'm using it is for old systems where PS is not preinstalled.

I used PS to write small scripts and I actually like it. I'm more fluent with bash, but that's only because I used bash a lot. PowerShell feels more robust, no silly space-in-filename problems, no silly parsing of text output to access fields. May be it's ugly for big scripts, I don't know, for me it looked like a vastly superior version of shell.

I would love to learn why people think that power shell is ugly, especially comparing with bash.
I think those are reasonable expectation.
SF has the most effective set of homeless policies in the United States, so effective that it has drawn a vast number of homeless to the city who overwhelm even the overwhelming resources the city devotes to homelessness. The comparison to Logan Utah is moronic beyond the bounds of imagination.
Ottawa announces 10B business credit line
Researchers in Canada Announce They've Isolated Covid-19 Virus
In the US, it looks like you can "permanently replace" union workers who are on strike.
That's indoors. Outdoors, both cities are next to oceans, which tends to stabilize humidity.
Multiple-language runtimes typically don’t get popular - people just end up choosing one language and standardizing on it. See for example Windtows Scripting Host: you could always use Javascript with it, but almost nobody ever did in practice. After a while, typically the vendor sees other languages as a drag on development, and they get dropped in favour of the main one.

Retrofitting a multiple-language runtime under VBA would likely be a big endeavour, and in the end most people would probably stick to the established language anyway.
Huh, I'm sure the FDA/CDC doesn't ban biotech companies from researching testing kits? You only need FDA approval if you're going to make it available to the general public.

SK is really lucky that they have that company who was focused on testing kits and even uses machine learning to quickly identify viruses. Why doesn't the US have such a company? Is it regulations? Surely not, when something like Theranos was allowed.
Is it true that bankers are more remotable than tellers?

What percentage of the work that tellers do could move over to those things with the buttons that let you have the money? I forget what they call them. Automated machines of some kind.
Yes. My idea is that Apple will do the compute on their iPhones in the user's pocket with a wireless connection between the two. The glasses will be an accessory to the phone.

Perhaps their plan is to start small and scale up only as much as will be "sexy" year over year. Rather than go all in on a massive headset and shrink with iteration.
Yeah, it explains why the testing isn't happening as well. Why bother doing surveillance testing if you've already surrendered to a 70% infection rate?

There's no point. Better to just let people come to the hospital if they absolutely need to, rather than risk people coming to the ER just because they tested positive.

It is possible that Italy has made a mistake in doing as many tests as they have. I'm not sure what the numbers are but it could be that the addition of infected-but-not-seriously-ill patients is a major problem.

So maybe this anti-surveillance testing approach does make sense once you've conceded the battle to contain the infection.
sorry for the late follow up.

the idea is your connection to an unwanted site has to be singled out before it can be throttled.

AFAIK website connections can be singled out by:

- unique server IP (countered by sharing server IP with many -> CDN)

- Server Name Indicator (countered by encrypted SNI)

- DNS (countered by encrypted DNS, eg. DNS over HTTPS)

They'd have to throttle the whole CDN.

eSNI and DNSoverHTTPS are on their way to be included in every major browser.
That’s a thing now, but for add-ins: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/referenc...
More recently, there's Flyboard Air[1] and EZ-Fly[2], though pricing and availability are unclear. Water jet Flyboards[3] and packs are a few $k.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UbOG0ERCwM
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExAY2kYvkpQ
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjvm5kO6ILA
Depends on why the increase in cases? Just because succesfully traced and identified a group of cases, it doesn't tell you anything about the growth in the true number of infected.

There are 10 people in hospitals in Denmark for COVID19. None dead.

By the publicised numbers Sweden is hit about the same as Denmark; yet they choose a much more moderate approach.
Absolutely, and the US bureaucrats deserve it too.
My question: I have not incorporated my (Indy video game) business yet. Does anybody know how to get access to any of this funding as a brand new, high risk company?
It would probably be easier to deploy far-uvc or resonant microwave anti microbial systems.
Skill directed in a manner hostile to one's interest is a harm, not a benefit, so arguing that representing interests that the current elite is hostile to on boards would limit their skill isn't really a negative for the purpose for which the diversity push is made.
I wouldn't be surprised if the apps themselves were not directly responsible here -- that is, the code that's written directly by the app developers.

Instead, it may very well be be some analytics/marketing SDK that has been included in the app because of a business request. These have no privilege separation: they run their code in the same context as the code that the app developers wrote. (Consider the example of games with no text UI; unless they're truly spying on their users, what would they get from doing this?)

I've said before, this SDK privacy hole is something we need to be very aware of as engineers and push our product/marketing folks to recognize as well. I would love to see Apple address it too. (On the other I have no idea how they would.)
Chenault Leaves Facebook Board After Disagreements with Zuckerberg
Board members aren't there to invent the next iPhone, they're there to determine when the CEO should be fired, and to hire a new CEO when necessary. Right now, the Microsoft board is particularly pointless since Satya Nadella is one of the highest-performing CEOs in the world and isn't close to retirement.
> great learning language

E.W.Dijkstra would disagree: "It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
> Otherwise, if msg is short and it gets broken across a block boundary, this can make meet-in-the-middle--style attacks easier.

Can you elaborate? Take SHA-512/256 with some awkward prefix size, let's say 127 bytes. Which attacks, presumably not side-channel based, become possible?

In any case, I am not convinced in the least by this suffix pitch. Handwaving that "prefix-freeness" needs to be checked, when that's something that is constantly gotten wrong and results in real breaks is a bit naïve. On the other hand, I have real trouble thinking of a real break caused by prefixing. The Ed25519 paper you link to does not point to prefixing as the culprit either; that just happened to be where the key was, and the lack of randomness makes power analysis possible. Without randomness, suffixing would suffer a similar fate.
For a small to medium sized codebase, functions and structs are simple, clear and don't obscure state.
> You're even more compromised if you are removed.

Unions (or their leadership) perceived as serving management are removed, invariably and swiftly, by their constituents, whether through decertification or leadership elections.
Option 1: If you size needs are modest, buy a monitor. For example, Dell's Ultrasharp monitors are mostly 4K and go up to 43" in size and are often examined by reviewers for color accuracy and performance since they are used in digital media production. They are, of course, not inexpensive but not unaffordable, and can be dual-purposed for work or hobby computer usage.

Option 2: Buy a projector. The home theater models are scrutinized closely by reviewers for video quality and, last time I checked, come without smart TV features. Prices range from merely expensive to blisteringly, eye-wateringly expensive but can be ameliorated slightly by purchasing used units.
Wow this is great. No I hadn't seen this but I'll definitely be reaching out to him. Thanks!
I agree with this comment. I see it as pragmatic thinking not to test people at this point. It is a special situation, if you show any symptom of sickness just stay at home, it should be a no-brainer. What if you cough in public? Will you shout "IT IS JUST A COMMON COLD" and people will feel safe? Actually people who "just have a bit of a cold" should stay at home in normal circumstances too in my opinion. It might be OK for you to have a runny nose but some other poor guy might catch your cold and get it worse because of bad immune system. Its comes down to individualistic vs collectivist thinking and now might be the time to think about the greater good.
I suspect the venn diagram of cities implementing free public transit and cities with tough homeless issues are not overlapping.
I don't know what the definition of a banker is in the first place other than an employee of the bank.

That is where my confusion lies. What is the definition of a banker? And what is their job title?
That's basically what the Oberon OS messaging system did, it was a little clunky but it worked. The Gadgets widgets system is still my favorite after all these years. It was like OLE but good.

I agree, if your code doesn't need objects, there's no advantage to OOP. and ECS is like extra-OOP. :-) (I replied to your reply in the other thread, BTW.)
Anyone here using this and feedback on it?
He literally said:

> I didn't do it. I have a whole group of people.

This president is unbelievable. I don't see how people even listen to this guy.
Even though I like cryptocurrency, I greatly enjoyed the "Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain" book by this author, which covers some of the greatest failures in the history of cryptocurrency - hacks, scams, bugs, and the like. I recommend all cypto fans give it a read - the acerbic tone might make you mad, but hopefully the knowledge and history helps you keep things in perspective.
The people in Hong Kong learned how to make their own and they work well. It's not hard and used readily available materials.

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/artic...

Instructions in English.
Probably they would. WHO could also provide the USA with tests. We could do more testing domestically. Not only could we open up more testing now, but we could have opened it up weeks ago. We've chosen not to do this. Yes, it is utterly insane.
Wow. That's beautiful, thanks for sharing.
"I would love to learn why people think that power shell is ugly, especially comparing with bash.
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I don't think people compare it with bash, but with more modern languages.
Haha, my man, I have to admit that is pretty weird. I don't imagine anyone would like that. Haha, it's like the pope or something.
Coronavirus destroys the ACE2 receptors as well as well kills the cell.

If you have an ACE2 receptor inhibitors that do not damage the cell it would be quite helpful as they would prevent infection while only temporarily disrupting RAS function.

P.S. stephen harrod buhner is a herbal “medicine” quack so stop posting his nonsense.

I swear contagion should win an Oscar for being dead on the money. Preferably a new category “called it”.
> The mortality rate of Covid-19 seems higher than that.

Sure if you intentionally mislead people by cherrypicking data.

> The around 3% mortality rate is what you get by dividing the number of deaths by the number of infection (past and present) (as of today: 5359 / 140875 = 3.8%).

140875 is the number of confirmed and tested infections. The number of actual infections is certainly much higher. So the mortality rate is most likely much lower than 3.8%. After all, most coronavirus infections are mild for the vast majority of people.

> If you divide the number of deaths by (recovered + deaths), the mortality is much higher (as of today: 5359 / (70174 + 5359) = 7.1%).

Sure if you ignore the hundreds of thousands of infected who "recovered" from mild symptoms.

> If it were to spread rapidly and overload our health systems, the mortality rate could rise even more, let's hope it doesn't reach that level.

The standard pattern. Try to fearmonger with intentionally misleading stats and then try to come off as a good samaritan. Why do all the coronavirus fearmongering comments all follow the same template?
> But my k(q) solution was written in five minutes and runs in under 5µsec -- almost 10x faster. I used binary search instead of b-tree (a decision the okon author considered but eventually went the b-tree route instead), but it's otherwise the same basic strategy.

Out of curiosity I did the same in python (with numpy) simply memmap-ing the sorted binary hash list and doing a binary search (again using numpy) on that.
I got around 40us lookup time using that solution.
Not too bad for about 5 minutes of coding.
Also tried using leveldb as datastore and got around 6us when using that (and solution is also only couple lines of code).
Yeah, for many programmers writing code in an unmanaged language would be like a breath of fresh air these days.
On what fact is he basing it on civic duty? There's literally nothing to support that. They started work on the tests before the disease even arrived in South Korea. It was the CEO reacting to perceived likelihood of future demand for such kits.
I found it very similar, conceptually speaking, to buffer overflows; it’s just that, instead of messing with boundary checks in memory, you are doing it on boundary checks in connections.

It also reminds me of the issue of character encoding in (x)html, where you have different ways to specify it (http headers, xml declaration, meta tags...) and if they don’t agree you can get corruptions downstream.
The board is meant to represent the investors and act as a check on the power of top executives so they don't go rogue and act contrary to the investors interests. Their job is certainly easier when the CEO is strong and things are going well, but it's still an important role.

Often the CFO (and sometimes other C-level officers) will also report directly to the board, or at least have a direct line of communication that the CEO isn't allowed to interfere with.
Comcast and T-Mobile to suspend internet data caps for the next 60 days
Currently experiencing a similar situation. I work in quality assurance(medical devices) and we're the only ones on site right now besides manufacturing. About half of our department has been set up to work from home and management is working on getting the equipment necessary to set up everyone. Not to mention they'll now be paying "designated essential workers" double time and we will not be included because our job doesn't necessarily require us to be on site, just that we're lacking the hardware as of now.
I loved VB. I don't think I've ever been as productive as I was in VB - I could literally knock together a complete desktop application in an afternoon.

It wasn't perfect. There were lots of problems with it. It would never win prizes in CS competitions. But man you could build shit with it fast.
Apple could require the paste dialog before the clipboard was accessed.

Complicated buffer access would require an "allow" dialog.

I am probably oversimplifying things.
A lot of this going on in Spain right now. Higher data caps for mobile connections (landlines have no data caps here), and some ISPs that have a TV service have opened it up for free.
Definitely. I was a huge fan of VB6, spent thousands of hours writing all kinds of things. When I first heard of VB.NET, I was excited to see what new features were implemented, expecting something like VB4->VB5->VB6. Boy was I in for a surprise. It seemed more like C wrapped in VB syntax. I started looking to other languages at that point, but as some other posters said I never found anything quite able to match the rapid prototyping GUI and debugging features of the VB6 IDE.
Unions reinforce the concept of class conflict/struggle/warfare due to strict categorization. The laws seem to be set up in a way to encourage this "us versus them" mentality.

[0] https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/free-books/employee-...

"Managers and supervisors are also not protected by the NLRA, and cannot join unions or be part of the bargaining unit. These employees are considered to be part of a company’s management rather than its labor force."
I doubt it. The stories would persist even if one set of written copies were cast into doubt. They have been more or less in their present-day form since long before the dead sea scrolls were discovered. That span of time and space has attracted hucksters and forgers for centuries, and theology has carried on.
Should be a permission.
https://github.com/astronomer
https://astronomer.io

Open source ecosystem and commercial support. Awesome team!
Show HN: Quine graphs – artificial life experiments (JS)
According to the record by Mark Green from Tennessee, the test that South Korea is using was denied because of inadequacy by the FDA in the USA, and that test will not even be used for emergency purposes.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?470277-1/federal-health-offici...
I just finished listening to a veteran virologist give a 2 hour interview. It’s being blown way out of proportion. Nobody under the age of 9 has died, period. Under the age of 30 your mortality probability is vanishingly small. It’s only a threat to people who have a compromised immune system because of age, diabetes or something like that. This is nothing like the Spanish flu. Unlike influenza viruses, these viruses don’t mutate in a way that would cause their recurrence every year. The chances of a more deadly strain popping up are extremely small.

I listened to trump address the nation in the rose garden live today. The npr correspondent confidently said that this virus “isn’t going away.” It’s a flat out lie and hysteria.
Is this already out?