skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ouch, even within Australia they have large discrepancies between capital cities. One of the reasons why remote work appealed to me, was that I was hoping to escape the unfair wage difference between cities. The fact GitLab maintains it despite not having to pay for real estate in the city you work from is totally unreasonable. Same work, same pay. I'll never apply for them.
I am going to do a reality check that will probably be unpopular, but it doesn’t matter...

While MS had products like hololens out, Magic Leap was still “in stealth”. This is the same company that was “worth billions” before they even released a product or before they had made public whatever product they wanted to sell. The marketing videos they produced early on (which were impressive) look nothing like the technology that was released years later. Look up the expectation vs reality videos of if you want a laugh.

Now they want out at a crazy valuation.

When the economy is “good” and there is plenty of dumb cash lying around (think these past years of bubble build up), an expert sweet talker is able to command money away from the vision fund type of folks. However, then the situation is like we are right now, we go back to the basics... things like market-fit, income, revenue, growth, sustainability... the healthy business.

We need the bubbles of the Magic Leaps, WeWorks and all the other unsustainable unicorn startups to burst. This is what will bring us back to industry sanity. The first dotcom bubble burst made our industry better. I hope this one does, too.
How to Escape the Tyranny of the Clock
But THERE IS NO HIGHER POWER INVOLVED. There just isn't. Even if alcoholism is illogical, there still just isn't.
Paywalled. :-(
> Here’s a radical idea: Why not just optimise the mobile experience of your website?

This is the most sensible bit of the article. In many smaller cases it's not really clear why the app needs to exist at all, and in some (Reddit, Instagram etc) the app is pushed so hard that it deliberately degrades the web experience.
It's part of the "localization" push by governments, news/media, some consumers and tech companies themselves. I guess it's okay for passive consumers, but for tech or advanced/active consumers, it's annoying. I'm pretty sure most major sites/apps/etc all localize. So your google search results, youtube frontpage, etc will be different based on your location.
>who were reasonably likely to be your in-group with your best interests at heart

Or at the very least, you were dealing with people who were _also_ not anonymous. It's a balance-of-power issue more than anything.
Their map is crap though. They indicate the southern US as nearly free of cases. I had initially been viewing it alone, thinking things seemed remarkably fine. Data seems accurate, but don't trust their map.
Same here. Seems like a bug.
I went through the interview process and got turned off by the same thing.
It might include lots of Canadian islands, though. Maybe specify that it needs to be on or east of the mid-Atlantic ridge as well.
They don't need to solve the problem, just keep the infection rate slow enough to be controlled medically. And then keep everything locked down enough until we can get a vaccine produced. Admittedly, a gargantuan task, and I don't think it's going to happen anywhere else.
Ah, repos without code, my favourites!
> This is still a thing

That's debatable, someone can legally "park" a drone above your back yard or in front of a window and the only legal thing you can do is to shield your life behind a non-transparent medium (board your windows).

Someone can legally access your private data coming from ISPs, mobile operators, any number of devices in your house, etc. and the only legal thing you can do is cut yourself off from all of those services that admittedly are more or less a requirement for modern life.

The examples can continue. Saying "if you choose it" doesn't do it justice, the choice comes with severe and likely unreasonable sacrifices relative to what society offers and expects/demands these days.
As a guy who makes most everything in HTML, CSS, and JS I still don't understand the logic of it will be lightweight and fast, given how many crappy things that are not lightweight and fast I see all the time in the web stack.

It'll have more performance is the correct argument, if you can prove it. But I have my strong doubts. I would make the argument on

it will be easier to develop and maintain because you will have a unified stack.
Meaning it will be cheaper.
If you increase performance in one you will probably increase performance in the other, meaning the work you do to increase performance in your website will probably translate into performance improvements in your app.
+1

More than a week. Confirmed cases are 30 in Florida, presently. But strangely, the map historically indicated much more, then suddenly removed many cases.
> We can't effectively say for certain whether there's a correlation with throwing in a higher power or just group therapy on its own in this circumstance

The higher power is not "thrown in" to AA, it is the critical foundation.

Also the people who are most critical of this concept or most aggressively reject AA based on a perceived religious foundation also tend to be the ones who have the poorest understanding of what the higher power means.

I'll admit it's not an easy concept to grasp. For many/most fellows AA the principles of AA take a good amount of time to begin to understand, and alcoholics sometimes bumble their way in and out for years before this happens. It's a learning process. Pushing back on these principles, especially the existence of one's higher power, correlates highly with continued active drinking. Acceptance of this is the whole point of the program.
(edit: precedent, not precedence, if that wasn't obvious, sorry for the spam)
Maybe the problem is that to disable telemetry you have to contact support and pray they like you, instead of giving a configuration option.
My headers are set to en-US,en;q=0.9 (no other languages) on both Chrome and Firefox and the page is partially translated on both.
>>"I wouldn't want to know how many were disappeared into body bags while they were still breathing just to keep reported numbers down."

So, you don't want to know, but still you can't avoid tell us.

Do you have any information about this kind of thing going on, or you just dream about it last night?
Is ‘Race’ Modern?
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594... seems up to date.
Even without a passport? If I rocked up to the border of my country without a passport I'm pretty sure I'd be thrown into a detention centre if I wasn't deported on the spot.
MediaRecorder API is in Safari OSX as an experimental feature and it looks like it's actually not working properly in WebKit: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85851

To be honest it doesn't seem like developers are jumping up and down for it so it's easy to understand why it's not a priority. It's open source so you're welcome to fix it I suppose.
This is fantastic! I want to make one. Is it possible to get a cheap polygonal mirror? Then you can get more scans per revolution.
I think the arguments here (and in the article) are largely missing the truly valuable point.

For most businesses (not necessarily for Facebook, or even other mass-market consumer-facing companies), the decision of native vs. web is not purely about responsiveness at the "10ms vs. 50ms" level of granularity. The conversation is centered instead around ROI (return on investment), and thus development/maintenance costs are very important.

Thus, the steady march of progress in the PWA space is awesome, and will indeed lead to the decline of native mobile apps created in the corporate space -- especially for internal and B2B use cases (again, not necessarily for the Facebooks of the world).
I cannot disagree with any of this, really. The man seems to get into a mode sometimes, and forgets where the ESC key is.

Still, I mostly enjoyed reading "Fall, or Dodge n Hell". Not as much as Cryptonomicon, mind you, and less than Seveneves; Anathem is stronger than any of these.

Although I have to work to get past the 100-page chunks that fill his book, it does not put me off reading about a book a year. Quicksilver is on my list, for example.

All of this is to say that he is a flawed writer, but that there is much to be gained by reading his work.
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Well I think progressive apps have a long way to go. Now you are able to do things like photo editing and video editing in your smartphones. You can't have that with web apps only. Performance of browsers or webviews is very limited.
This version shows cases by state in the US:

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...
> The thing is that most of humankind lived in small tribes or villages, everyone knew everyone's business and privacy practically didn't exist.

Where's your source for this?
not to worry my xenophobia is limited to the CCP regime not against the Chinese people. I have a record of criticizing the CCP, the GOP, the AfD, National Rally, and every other political terrorist system out there ... and I was like this long before Covid19 became a topic.

You should find some Uyghur friends and see how this white-washing goes down with them.
There's stuff like Capacitor with which you can build decently native-feeling PWAs that can be bundled into appstore-ready trinkets if you so desire. I'm a huge fan of the insta-deploy feature PWAs offer tho and routinely lobby for them at my company.

Clients seem to prefer apps for some reason tho.
I (a web developer) do not find HTML/CSS/JS easier than native development tbh. It's just a lack of familiarity that pushes people to use javascript for absolutely everything (despite it being unsuitable for many of those tasks).
They won't be fighting for their life, but they might have long-term damage that requires continuous care.
Off by a bit, sorry, edited.
Couldn't share my screen –– MacOS Catalina, Firefox 73.0.1

UPD: Updated Firefox to 74, still `Unable to share screen`
That doesn't surprise me. Back in the dim and distant past, I worked in a store where one of my jobs was changing watch batteries. I was given a Watch Back Remover tool and shown once how to use it: that was the full extent of my "training".

So, if we got a watch that didn't have a standard back, we just wouldn't bother with it. However, for the G-Shock, it looks like it's a really straightforward job that should take you 5 mins to do yourself. Looks a lot easier than any laptop repair/replacement job for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGkFYVpDv-k
Actually I wrote just such a solution: https://whiteboardfox.com

It's a canvas solution, but if you have a stylus with a table then you can get pretty good outcome: https://s1.whiteboardfox.com/s/27e946824d29abc2.png

You can also 'replay' your whiteboard session:
https://whiteboardfox.com/1428618-3583-6927?replay&speed=4.0
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Perineuronal nets influence learning and memory formation – NIN
Doesn't seem very well thought out. The economic cost of the first scenario (numerous deaths in peak period) would likely be the highest with the impact both on workforce and market sentiment. The impact of long tail scenarios lower because death toll would not be just redistributed but also reduced by likely an order of magnitude.
There are fundamental differences between people and machines recognizing you. I'm sure people relied on the fact that other people forget. Machines don't. Machines all look the same and you cannot make the difference between friend and foe, who you should be hiding from and who you shouldn't. Machines can be far more intrusive than humans because they don't have to submit to any social norm, they are not afraid of being spied on themselves, they are not afraid of being recognized while spying. And they anonymize the people controlling them.

These make all the difference between being recognized by humans and machines.
All EU citizens (including Irish) and British citizens show a passport or national identity card when entering Britain or Ireland, or when entering the Schengen area.

The document is checked, but it is not stamped. GB/IE←→Schengen checks used to be very simple — often just a glance, no checking the chip or swiping the passport in a reader. Often it was just one or two customs people standing by the gate and looking at each document, not even with a desk. Now (since the refugee thing?) they do swipe the document on the passport-reader-machine.

I assume an electronic record is kept (at least for some period of time), and it is surely shared within the EU+GB, but I don't know if it would be shared to the USA.

(If the situation were reversed, would the USA tell the EU about American citizens who've crossed the US/Canada border using their driving license?)
Reminds me of Virtual Boy
> Here in Belgium though … we’re doing nothing. No government-based sanctions.

That's because Belgium has no government to put sanctions into place.
Why the misogyny, incel? This is empowering for independent women whose lives are a brave personification of sexual degradation and spreadsheets rather than the cis-hetero-patriarchal oppressive qualities of love, family, and purpose. It's 2020!
<$500 USD is considered an affordable watch? My casio cost <$10, and I doubt smart watches are eating into that market.
Excuse me, but can you explain what "AEC" is?
Let's see what you do when your spouse is dying in your apartment with no medical help and all you have is a box of chloroquine. I truly don't wish this for you.
I interpreted it like this: deaths are less expensive than lost productivity.

This might actually hold given the groups that are the most at risk are probably least productive: the old and the infirm.
> Its possible cultivating those beliefs, even if false, is a powerful tool in overcoming addiction. It may actually be the case that cultivating some belief in a higher reason / order to the universe is beneficial in recovery.

Also - these beliefs may be soothing, which decreases stress level and helps with depression and addiction.
Sorry to be critical, but can someone explain to me the benefits of having code search this powerful?

Surely code is easier to explore in an IDE which understands the context and dependencies of the project... This just seems like a glorified "find"
see my comment above for a bioinformatics approach and apparently the CDC now someeewhat agrees, though i know neither the guy on the video nor the source (not US citizen): https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/12379747999990620...
Johns Hopkins Hospital version seems more up to date

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...
Only some languages can readily support such features.

For example C has a preprocessor and linking step driven by a build system. And C has a bunch of different build systems available, some of which are procedural rather than declarative.

Maybe you'll need to support package management - if a function signature calls for a CopyOnWriteArrayList do you need to know what the subclasses and superclasses of that type are? Do you need to resolve all the dependencies to be able to do that?

If you're thinking "No problem, everyone compiles their programs in CI anyway" - are you happy to skip indexing unused code and uncompileable code?

And of course you'll be chasing after language and build tool changes - not only to one language, but every language.

On the other hand, a nice simple grep? Sounds much simpler to me.
I started building mobile apps in 2004 and this Unicorn / debate was already alive and well at that point.

Yes, most apps could be easily dropped with increased focus on web responsiveness. No, it won’t happen wholesale for a variety of reasons.

Most interesting for me to consider is what does an ‘app’ look like when the target is a contact lens or a hearing aid.

Platforms will continue to evolve and native will continue to be preferred imho.
And they’re owed pensions or other tax expenditures like healthcare.
How Startups Get Out of Survival Mode and into Growth Mode
Yep I agree with you.

Not right to blame you for other’s behaviours.

Doesn’t sound like you did anything wrong from what you posted.
Cynical but probably true.
cashless society and soylent green coming soon. one step at a time.
Or perhaps our government is acting and handling the threat, just not in a way mass hysteria on Twitter demands. Knee jerk reaction usually ends up in theater, not proper containment.

(Then again, my government isn't the Belgian government.)
I see how the struggle for economic reasons, but I have too little faith in them being smart enough for that plan and doubt they have good enough data scraping by the max capacity line so closely with confidence.

Even the graph in the article is weird, why is there a sharp limit at max capacity in the T2 curve? the virus doesn't care about max capacity....
Sounds like some dystopian eugenics shit to be honest, get rid of those who no longer contribute to society.

I for one am working towards my old age, I'd hate to be left to just die.
yeah it's especially idiotic when a freaking cruise ship gets its own entry but an independent country-island doesn't.
I like how cost is modelled as linear with time here and independent of deaths.

Surely, cost is the area under the curve of the original graph. Massive strain on our systems doesn’t come for free.
On a side note, I'm from Denmark and I'm reading the international news, the decree that the danish government made last night is being framed as "closing all schools". Which is massively underselling it.

Every government worker who's not in a critical role or healthcare is being sent home. Most bars will close for the next two weeks, all sports activities have been cancelled, all gyms are closing down. Everyone who can work from home is working from home. Any gathering of people is discouraged

"Closing schools". Why is the media trying to undersell this so hard?
We saw many people in Italy fled south by train and car in the hours before quarantine was to be imposed in parts of the north.

I wouldn't be surprised if some people in Europe are making similar "escape plans" via the UK, if they feel they need to be in the USA for some reason.

As an example: a parent of an international student, whose university in the USA has just been shut down.
Anonymity is just a means to achieve privacy. Anyone that comes from somewhere small enough not to have privacy by blending in with the crowd had privacy by not actually being watched all the time. For example, the cows in the field aren't gonna tell the preacher that your gay lover stopped by or that you smoke the devil's lettuce every night. Yes these are different kinds of privacy but for normal levels of deviance from whatever the socially condoned behavior is the practical affect is the same.
Can consumer AI benefit from mass surveillance research?
You could still buy original Aeron from dot com era. Got myself 2002 model last year in close to pristine condition, only armrest needed to be replaced due wear
Had an interesting thought earlier. Seeing as a majority of deaths are in the range 60 years and above, and very little of the casualties affect younger (working) people, from the governments POV the virus will do well to decrease the disproportionate number of older pension receivers and nursing home residents in comparison with the dwindling number of young people working and paying taxes.

In other words, the government probably realizes that despite the grim reality, their POV may be that the virus will have a net positive effect on the economy and also accommodation affordability for the younger generation.
The thing is - they don't really have much IP worth anything. They have filed a ton of patents for ridiculous stuff like that "wiggling" fiber idea (the fiber would need to reach ultrasonic speeds to get anywhere close to usable display).

Also, according to this, all their patents are assigned to JP Chase as collateral:
https://www.kguttag.com/2019/11/10/all-magic-leap-patents-ha...

They want to exit because their investors don't want to pour more money into that bottomless pit, with no prospects of profitability (not to mention that there are other vendors doing the same thing and better/cheaper).

So hype things up, offload the worthless junk to some sucker and move to the Caribbean to enjoy the "profits" ...
Oh I certainly did not mean to imply it’s natural or OK...

To be more clear, this type of toxicity is seen all over the place and I think this behavior is likely caused by something that isn’t unique to any rehabilitation programs.

We see this toxic behavior in everything spanning from job workgroups to community planning committees and yes, it even manifests in extreme ways in many many communities.

I’d be the very last person to fall back on some “oh X is natural, so we should always accept X.” so if I gave this impression, huge apologies. It definitely was not my intention.

And I really don’t want to come across as if I’m stanning for AA as I’ve heard much more negative about them than positive.
Even in the red scenario, the number of people who will end up sick for a long time and require a lot of care outnumbers the death toll.

Caring well is always better than not caring. Unless we won't care in the green scenario either. But then, who think we won't care if we have time and resources?
No, the real problem is a tension between standardised, accessible, boring documents and the desire for flashiness. Being nonstandard helps a website "stand out", and helps the designer sell it to the commissioner of the design. Even if this doesn't help the actual users of the website.

Many customers have a sort of "print design" mentality where they want the website to look a particular way on their device, preferably a pixel-perfect match to something done in Illustrator. This was true in the Flash era, and it's still true today - that's why you get restaurants whose menu is only available as a PDF, a deeply mobile-hostile format, when just putting it on the front page would actually be easier and work better for the user.
Nice analysis, although there is no evidence that the economic impact is as described in the chart (#deaths/cost)
They used to be. In the last few days, they started falling behind (and as others said, the map is very out of date).
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> based on my IP

heh

in my case I wish it was based on my IP

but for some unbeknownst reason, some components of the page are in Russian. I'm not in Russia; nothing in my browser request indicates I'd like to read Russian.
>The economic cost of the first scenario (numerous deaths in peak period) would likely be the highest with the impact

This is self-evident, both due to first-order and second-order effects. How the author manages to stand it on its head is amazing. It's worth noting that approaching, or exceeding, the capacity of the medical system (or any other) drives the costs sky high by and of itself - not to mention other, unrelated cases that also need treatment. With a few weeks worth of disruption to healthcare, even mild cases of other illnesses can spiral out of control and become costly (or even deadly) on their own.

I wouldn't read too much into a country having a muted or slow response to the pandemic; it's the expected outcome of political and economical systems differing across the globe. There is always a slow country to act, and its citizens might feel entitled to the kind of far-fetched speculation the author posted.
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