skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm thinking that Apple will try to do something a bit different besides just live streaming the conference talks. I agree that being there in person is of great value, but Apple may try to make it more dynamic. Like live Q&A sessions with Apple engineers direct from "classrooms" on the Apple campus. This could make attendees feel like they're having a 1 on 1 conversation rather than one person in a sea of developers.
It's relating how techies put stickers on their macbooks. I get it immediately.
Replacing the firmware should require physical access for security reasons imho.
This lawsuit was filed in June of 2018. Is there any additional information on this lawsuit?
I'm serious enough about libre principles, though, that I'd be happy to buy weird europhones if I knew I had more control of my technology.
> I believe that these are low-skill content-moderation staff who were hired specifically for their FB contract.

I agree it's possible. If there are small consultancies doing the same work that would happen. Accenture would be more likely to wear it though to avoid rehire and PR expenses.

My point was that it's on Accenture what they choose to do, a company with plenty of billions and locus of control - not the client.
I understand everything that you wrote is just speculation starting from the conditional, “If COVID-19 digs in deep in the US then...” but I just don’t follow the logic.

It’s not our first pandemic. It won’t be the last. And I don’t see any reason at all to think why people won’t go back to living their lives at the first possible opportunity.

But what does “dig in deep” even mean? In the vast majority of cases it’s a mild virus with symptoms generally lasting a week.

If anything I think at the end of all this people will be deeply suspicious the next time the WHO declares a pandemic and insists we need to shut down the world economy.

We are not dealing with an exponential function. We are dealing with a logistics function, I.e. an “S” curve.

The predominant factor to coming out the other side of the curve is herd immunity.

IMO, the faster that young and middle age people acquire herd immunity, the safer it is long term for the elderly who are at the highest risk, because it drives R0 below 1 and extinguishes the pandemic.

The flaw with “flatten the curve” is overly simplistic thinking around the severity of cases. The best way to eliminate severe cases, assuming strict containment is impossible or cripplingly costly, is to gain herd immunity in the low-risk populations.
I think generally speaking now the talk surrounding NoSQL involves the use case more often than not. And that's probabbly how it should be.

Plenty of situations out there where I hear about people using SQL and NoSQL nearly hand in hand depending on what you need to do.

I think the hype has quieted and they're just another tool as they should be.
It's relating how techies put stickers on their macbooks. And this is the newsroom press release, they just need something simple for illo.
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And relevant to the roundtrip issue at hand here: You can send bind/execute in a pipelined manner.

I'd benchmarked batch upserting at some point, and at that time for large amounts of data the fastest approach was somewhat unintuitive: A separate view with an INSTEAD trigger doing the upserting. That allows for use of COPY based streaming (less traffic than doing separate bind/exec, less dispatch overhead), and still allows use of upsert. Not a great solution, but ...
Which is totally fine. Auditors aren't going to care what your log service is. They might, on the other hand, ask you to show evidence of, like, a log line when someone accesses the admin console. You want that to be easy to generate and, just as importantly, you want the process of obtaining that log line to be easy to describe: "go to this one place, type in this one query, save the result". In a perfect world, you want the answers to lots of auditor questions to be the same, perhaps modulo the "one query" you type in to generate the result.

This isn't because the auditor is going to care whether you have to log into 15 different hosts to grep for 20 different log lines; they have no idea what "grep" even is. It's because it's a lot of work to document 15 different processes coherently.

This idea is the basic lens through which people should be reading our recommendations here.
The current health situation (lack of oxygen on the surface) has required that we move WWDC2030 into Earth orbit.
These are open source clients for a proprietary backend, which are no doubt still useful in a number of circumstances.

If you are comfortable with a more proprietary stack, then Google Hangouts / Zoom / others are likely to provide a better supported user experience.

If you would prefer a more libre end-to-end experience then Jitsi Meet may be an attractive alternative.
For people interested in talking about politics and local community civic projects, I made a chat roulette service to connect people with similar topic interests:

https://dinnertable.chat/
I wonder why they need a union. Is something currently not working in their favor?
Right, but why not have a zip of .txt/.pdf/.html files? Feels like that might be easier to view and smaller to download.
That seems to be what England is planning on doing.

https://twitter.com/wtgowers/status/1238395750360461312
Here's more detail: https://www.itv.com/news/2020-03-12/british-government-wants...

The article mentions that "...allow the virus to pass through the entire population so that we acquire herd immunity, but at a much delayed speed", but also that they don't plan to delay football matches.

I don't understand, do they think that more conservative strategies will slow the virus down "too much"? They mention fear of "constraints on freedom of movement" being lifted too soon, maybe a more rational approach is to just not lift them too soon, rather than encourage gatherings like football matches. Given the numbers in Italy & China, I would argue that several football matches could potentially lead to thousands of simultaneous hospitalizations, which seem to be the biggest problem in e.g. Italy. What am I missing here?
It could have other interesting implications. Like, no more grinding labels off of chips so a customer has a fighting chance of replacing things. That would be a nice world to live in, I think.
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Sorry, wasn't trying to compare HAARP to Woodpecker by like for like purposes. I was mentioning more on totally odd radio installations cloaked in conspiracy.
South Korea is doing some random testing to figure out how many cases only looking at symptomatic patients is missing. With that it looks like the total fatality ratio is just .6% for them. But of course they haven't had hospitals overwhelmed with too many patients at once and I expect that Italy will see a much higher fatality ratio.
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Delphi is quite popular still in Europe. Also it is not just Windows. Delphi/Lazarus produce exe for all the major platforms. I was doing some GUI app for Raspberry Pi and I had Lazarus IDE running right there, along with debugging and all other goodies. Also I mostly develop products and are on my own since 2000. Not much concern on my side about what all those big cloudy companies think. Eff them ;)
Medicare for all doesn’t pay the rent.
Probably management if I were to guess.
No, that’s how the shiny metallic Apple logo has always looked ever since they got rid of the backlit one. See for instance product shots of the 12’’ MacBook, which IIRC was the first: https://www.apple.com/shop/refurbished/mac/12-inch-macbook https://www.imore.com/macbook/home
I'm not familiar with anti-gouging laws, but I'd be curious to see if Amazon's typical "we're the marketplace, not the seller" argument applies during declared emergencies or if they should be held responsible to reduce/eliminate price gouging on their platform.
For my part, my main complaints with GitLab's UI are:

1) It's too slow. If the same UI were 2x faster it'd be a lot easier to use.

2) It doesn't meet the bare minimum of "at least do something useful" if JavaScript is turned off

3) Getting around the various tools available for a single repo is difficult

Pot calling the kettle black a bit with that 3rd one, though.
"We've been using it forever so there is no point." Is a really bad argument if you truly believe it is racist.

As others have pointed out, naming a virus from it's origin or discoverer is a common practice. I just looked up "Wuhan Virus Racist" to see if it was a trend or not in the media because I was a bit taken back by your comment about it and it being on HN, so I figured there was something more to it. Which it does seem to be a thing being discussed a bit.

Regardless though, I don't recall anyone complaining when MERS, NDH-1, and Hanta virus were prevalent and in the news. I can see why the Chinese government wouldn't want it called Wuhan Virus as an attempt to do some PR cleaning especially since the city has been in lock down for like 2 months now and the citizens are understandably getting frustrated with it.

As for the racism accusations, my grandma is part Chinese, so there is that. But more importantly, the Chinese government may be able to censor their own people, but I won't be a partner to their attempt to clean up their PR through social censoring as they tried to do with Hong Kong and pressuring companies. It's not racist, doesn't even have anything to do with race, as there were Americans and Europeans who contracted it and brought it back here, and it was the government's fault for covering up the virus and censoring the info coming out in the first place, not the Chinese people, just like it will be the government's fault here in the States if they keep on continuing to mislead the people about numbers and their capacity to handle it.

No doubt, there will be racists, so I understand that. Racists will always pick something up to use and be vocally racist about, that's who they are. But as I have said, I won't be party to the censoring efforts because we used a location for a name and they don't like the fact that its a location under their authority and responsibility.

If you believed it was racist to use those locations as names for viruses, then the use of Spanish flu, Hanta virus, MERS, West Niles, Lyme, NDH-1, etc would all be just as disturbing regardless of how old the term is or not. Now obviously, you can use whatever term you want, saying "COVID-19" wont dissuade racists from being racist to Chinese individuals and blaming them for it, but it will assist the Communist Party in controlling the narrative and shifting the responsibility. So, like I said, its 100% perfectly okay to call it COVID-19 I see people calling the quarantines "cordon sanataire" instead because they like it better or whatever reason, but there is nothing racist in my comment or otherwise about Wuhan Virus or any of the others mentioned.

I'm not going to call you a racist because "its too late and confusing to not use Spanish Flu" don't insinuate I am one because I use the term it was first called in the news and the convention of naming it after the place it was discovered.
I tried Jitsi and I love the UI but it uses so much CPU... Still looking for a self-hosted alternative.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22568337
This looks great, looking forward to trying it out. I was a heavy Essbase user at a previous analyst role so working with data as a spreadsheet plugin feels very natural.
I still miss the backlight.
It's worth noting that this project will likely not benefit the people of China. A somewhat obscure fact is that China has its own edition of Minecraft which cannot connect to servers of the mainstream edition.

https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Minecraft_China
60-75k is on the low side for a qualified dev, even in Michigan.
My highlights:

> 90% of the workers indicated their support for joining CWA and authorized CWA to be their bargaining representative

> about half of whom work in the New York City headquarters and half of whom work remotely throughout the country

> Employees at major American tech and game companies have grown increasingly active and outspoken about workplace issues, including sexual assault and harassment, ageism, unequal pay, “crunch time” (i.e. long-term overtime and overworking), poor treatment of contract workers, inadequate racial and gender diversity, and lack of transparency and inclusion in decision-making around controversial contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

> “We appreciate that unlike so many employers, the Glitch management team decided to respect the rights of its workforce to choose union representation without fear or coercion."

> CWA was founded by telecom workers, and supports media workers through its Newsguild-CWA and NABET-CWA sectors.
Mutating doesn't mean it's going to get worse. It's entirely possible for the virus to mutate into a less dangerous form. Going out of your way to get it now is too much of a risk.

While I don't believe SARS-CoV-2 is quite as bad as the media frenzy is making it out to be, it's absolutely a good idea to do everything you can to avoid getting it. The same goes for the flu and for colds. If you catch any of these, you may be OK, but you risk spreading it to people who won't be.
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Superheros weren't invented in the 20th century. We just used to call them differently. They used to be gods or their offspring.
I look forward to statistically valid serological (antibody) testing, but this usually takes a year or two to be released.
> Appeal to tradition. Denied.

That's rich coming from the guy who just said we can call it Spanish Flu because it's old.
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As always, there's an XKCD for this: https://xkcd.com/1132/

Basically, imagine that it's a decade from now, and no one in the world has COVID-19 anymore. The test still has a 1% false-positive rate, though - so if you test a few thousand people, a few of them will test positive. Given that setup, every single one of the test positives will be false positives.

The same holds true if there's one infected person and you test 1,000,000.
Probably you're already familiar with it, but if not, you'll love this:

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Of all the stories I heard, Woz was way more interested in using them. When Jobs found it out it was illegal, he dropped selling them and distanced himself from the other phreakers he was hanging out with, too afraid of the legal ramifications of getting caught with this equipment.

Most of the books I've read basically paint Jobs as a goody-two-shoes type who cringed at the illegality of phreaking - while saying he probably was thinking ahead, knowing he already wanted to start his own company and didn't want stuff like this to come back and haunt him.

It was an interesting dichotomy to me.
Thanks for posting this -- I hadn't heard of the Librem 5, and it's fascinating.
Yeah, they say something, but I suspect it's more about human nature than these times.
> Could you elaborate? Why is there no value to a locked iPhone? Can you not still wipe it and reuse it?

iPhones have a feature called activation lock. You can't wipe them without the previous owner's AppleID.
Way too complicated an explanation. I don’t think it has to do with technology at all.

I think the reason superheroes are all the rage is that they present usually simple, uncontroversial content that appeals to the broadest collection of cultures, ages, and educational/socioeconomic backgrounds - so they maximize their audience and thus the money they make. It’s simplistic and you don’t have to think too deeply about it. It doesn’t challenge your notions of society or speak truth to power. It’s just about good guys fighting bad guys
I think these analogies are way way older than Iraq, and I'd bet they exist in cultures all over the world. War is probably the most intense part of the human experience, and using War analogies lends easy power to your statements.
What form do the books take? That's never shown.
How and why you define the health of your future generations
Yeah I had just switched to pentesting, was eager to get started. Killed some passion.

Believe me, I'd still be collecting it if I knew this was going to happen.

>But do you think tech hiring will really slow down?

We should be good but these are extraordinary times.
I don't understand what you're trying to say here. The fact that companies will now be liable means that if even a single person is affected, not only is there clear liability, the kind of offenses that aren't sued for right now, because the payoff is to low to cover the court costs, are suddenly perfectly viable class action suits for amounts in the hundreds of millions of dollars against single manufacturers.

That's a huge shift, and about as far from "moot" as you can get.
> we’d be figuring out how to temporarily suspend rent, loan payments, and taxes

This. Under society-wide crisis, it's madness that the economic impact is supposed to just stop at landlords, moneylenders, etc. There are instances where individual organizations are trying to do the right thing, but the only humane thing to do is spread the impact (and recovery measures) across everyone.
Sorry, I'm lately in the "CI" mood, testing, automation so bit became a bit of habit to spawn what I've learned last few months.

The Visual Studio Debugger is simply the best. Okay, it's not a powerhouse like WinDBG, or have the knowledge of IDAPro, and various other cool debuggers (OllyDbg, others..), but it's the easiest one to learn (IMHO), and teach. Few bits and tricks, press F5 and you are done :)
I've been dealing with them for years and never saw anything shady. Perhaps the GP got unlucky and was unwittingly sold chairs with replacement parts.
I've recently tried Jitsi but could not figure out how to do screen / desktop sharing. Is this possible at all, do you happen to know? (there were some sketchy-looking 3 star review plugins for Chrome, but they didn't really inspire confidence)
Feature phones have capabilities beyond just making calls/sms but less capabilities than smart phones.
Is this still a thing? I've never encountered Dr.Watson recently. I do remember really long time ago Soft-ICE - that was exciting back then - debugging DOS/Windows really low level (I think it was through serial port on another machine)....
Agree! Caves of Qud is quite fun. It can be difficult, so I often turn off permadeath just so I can wander around and enjoy the crazy worlds it has to offer on each run

Very neat what it has done with ASCII-style interface too
There are two different strains already.
I think we can if we start to try and treat viral illnesses in the animals in wet markets
They're visible in a satellite image. I'd hardly say a football field size ditch is visible from the ISS with the naked eye, or even on an airplane without a zoom lens.
That sounds like a fascinatingly terrifying balancing act.
North Korea Hasn’t Reported Any Cases of the Coronavirus
I can appreciate how safe iOS is, I think that’s a great default stance. It’s actually one of the reasons I’m in the apple ecosystem after hacking around on Android for years. In our sad reality of apps being more worried about monetizing then about respecting the user, it’s nice to know iOS has my back. But I really find the lack of being allowed to sideload apps frustrating and limiting. Sure, make me jump through hoops, but don’t tell me I can’t do it at all. Apple’s policy might be fine in the bass majority of contacts, but there are in fact situations where a user should be able to say “I understand your concern, but I know what I’m doing, and I want to do this for whatever personal reason”

There are plenty of things you can’t do for reasons beyond safety. I can’t easily load emulation apps for example. Apple doesn’t allow it because of copyright concerns, and there’s no way around that. There are apps that Apple doesn’t allow for business reasons.

And regardless, apps which use system APIs can absolutely be dangerous, but they can also be super useful or interesting or fun, and I should be allowed to make my own judgments rather than simply being told I’m not allowed to try something that might potentially possibly be dangerous.
I wonder if people who don't have regular jobs would be able to use these services in any way? As far as I know, self employed people don't qualify for these for example. I'm not an expert, but that's what it looked like last time I checked.
I'd suggest going back to John Brunner and The Shockwave Rider. TSR is generally considered one of the foremost examples of "proto-cyberpunk" and laid the groundwork for a lot of what came after. Plus it's just plain and simply a fun novel to read.
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She was jailed for refusing to testify, and any relevant context is not clear, hence asking "why?"
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Weren't superhero stories tilted toward male audience quite a lot? And I also think that they became "all aged" only insofar current adults who grew with then still like them. People who did not grew with them and don't have that nostalgia like them less.
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What on Earth could make someone so GREEDY to go through the hassle of doing this?

FTFY
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You misinterpret--or rather, I wasn't clear. While I say it aspires, I'm not saying it's a good choice.

I'm just saying its odd behavior makes a lot more sense once you know it's meant to be declarative, and you can make a lot more headway when working with it.
Do you pray for Wonder Woman?
I guess there are hundreds of these sites. I know of Mapiful since before.

https://www.mapiful.com/

Printmycity is just another copycat, right?
Those had quite different narrative structure.
> it will lead to illiberal regimes banning access to aforementioned MMOs remains to be seen

I'm surprised MMOs are not regularly blocked. Most of them can be used as chat platforms, replacing applications that are already blocked.
Previously mentioned here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22562384

It bears pointing out that this article was written by a political scientist in Washington DC [1], not an Italian medic. The colorful prose about "all those gasping for air" is not a first-hand account, and is not supported by available statistics. Here is a continuously updated summary of the numbers:

https://www.newnotizie.it/2020/03/12/coronavirus-posti-letto...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yascha_Mounk
Could you perhaps elaborate on the LISP/DSL approach to programming that leads to efficent and safe C code?

Thanks.
Here is a question:

Why don't we have more smaller unions in America, but instead these GIANT mega unions?

I get collective bargaining is better with more numbers, but it feels like there is no way to have a "new" union exist?
Not just large challenges. We are faced with a society so big that we feel that nothing we do can make any difference. We feel powerless. Hence the appeal of individuals powerful enough that they can, individually, make a difference.
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True; rent should be suspended due to the crisis. The mechanics are tricky, and much worse, I have no hope of the actual policy leadership required to see this through here in the US. We're like an off-road vehicle with a suspension system built of cheap glass.
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