skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked on US national security Y2K issues for two years prior. Yes, it was real. The fact that so many people now think it was a big nothing means my team did its job.
Tom Perkins sailed with him and found him lacking in actual maritime experience. He was a fraud, a very very good fraud, but a fraud.

https://www.latitude38.com/features/O'Brian.htm
So here's the thing: 80% of the population doesn't own stock. When fed pumps such massive money to prep the stocks, where does that money end up? I guess the idea is that then we pump the stock so companies continue to hire people so unemployment remains low. Considering the vast majority of jobs are low paying, if not outright minimum wage jobs, this means these trillions of dollars of fed charity is basically meant for nothing but making sure people gets paid minimum wage for next couple of months. On the other hand, if US government equally distributed 1.5T to each citizen then each person would get $5000 which is about 1/3rd of minimum wage income for a year. That seems like far better deal than trying to keep pumping the stock.
It's created a lot of awareness and peer pressure around hygiene, which I'm very grateful for. I'm sure we've all caught that coworker or friend leaving the bathroom without washing their hands or not covering their face when they sneeze.
Coreboot still uses UEFI since that's what the motherboard uses to boot the OS.
It's better to associate classes with encapsulation.

I generally don't do inheritance apart from a few weird cases because composition over inheritance works way better.
I see so many people making the point that they have some syndrome and so they need x, y, z in a job. Valid, I'm sure, personally well-considered, true and everything, but still, indicative of a person who's problems are more important to them than the ones the company is hiring for.
It's obvious what they gain? What does the CCP care about more than anything? They care about their image and the stability of their hold on the people.

If China looks like they "fucked it up" then the people become more restless and start questioning the party. Also, they care deeply about their worldwide reputation and that the world sees that their "system" (top down authoritarianism) is seen as more effective than western progressive liberal democracies.

It makes them look a hell of a lot better if they can say to their people, "Look guys, look at how well we handled this crisis compared to the Western countries, this is why having an authoritatian one-party state with absolute control is better for you guys!"

Looking like the idiot country who totally fucked this up doesn't help the CCP at all, which is why they tried to silence the guy who was originally trying to blow the whistle on this whole thing.
Yep. I have the Pixel 4 as well and keep it disabled. Needs a killer app.
Also.. what freedoms are now at risk in an attempt to prevent the next pandemic?
No procedural macros means that libraries like serde and diesel cannot exist. Or at least, they would have to exist in a much worse form. This was true before Rust 1.15, when the first parts of procedural macros were stabilized. I remember the release specifically because things got so much better after this was possible.
I'd argue its harmful when Christians teach you to feel bad for being human.

This is much the same.
> I have always associated classes with inheritance.

This is a common pattern I've noticed in discussions about OOP. There is a tendency to reduce it to "inheritance," which turns the conversation into a straw man: "here is why inheritance is bad, therefore OOP is bad".

Same goes for identifying classes with inheritance. Their primary feature is grouping of methods and fields into (potentially) encapsulated units, and being a mechanism for abstraction: classes are more general than their instances and serve as a general pattern; upon construction they are 'configured' through parameters to their constructors and particular forms are arrived at.
The scholarship is for an academic degree, not resume polishing for a professional athletic league. It's in the name.
Essentially its countering threat of massive deflation with some inflation
I wonder how much this over-modest attitude of us continual learners is turning hiring into a market for lemons. That is, you are an "intermediate", but the overconfident person who's been doing C++ for two years and is touting themselves as an expert gets hired instead and you get to fix their disasters five years later.

And I bet this affects women and other minorities in tech disproportionately.
Yes. Almost. There's a complexity threshold over which there is a need for: vision, full stack, deep dive, patience, steady progress over long periods of time. And yes, certain amount of extreme drive to go over the bumps ;).
I think testing might be important to epidemiologists and public policy makers. It's probably why Dr. Fauci at the CDC was saying he is in favor of proactive testing.
Benjamin Ferencz: 'We should have put Osama bin Laden on trial'
Here's a credible paper asserting that the net feedback is negative:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/16000870.2019.1...

I'd have to know a lot more before deciding that either a runaway greenhouse or net cooling is plausible, let alone likely.
I don't remember which talk it was, but it was comparing an okay dev to a good dev; There was a slide where the "okay" dev rated their C++ knowledge as a 8 or 9, the "good" dev rating it as a 5 or a 6 and Bjarne Stroustrup rating it as a 7.

[edit]

Some googling later: https://www.slideshare.net/olvemaudal/deep-c/255
Korea had people actively (hard to believe, I know) making things much worse. But they didn't downplay it for the first two weeks after the virus took hold. With these exponential issues time is everything.
Help create an open source ventilator
Congratulations on launching. It is a very fascinating tech space.

Could you elaborate how the system as a whole is compliant with GDPR and other European privacy laws?

I ask because I explored and eventually decided not launch a computer vision product (in 2014) due to compliance aspects.

Looking at it from the whole system perspective, with a camera pointed at your neighbour's garden or the street in front of your home it is quite difficult to make a compliant system:

First, there are the hurdles of the GDPR (it has to be a legitimate purpose, the subject has rights and must be informed etc....).

Second, there are the broader privacy laws for public spaces, where it is mostly illegal with exceptions for government and some specific use cases for banks etc. (I am familiar with Danish rules, not those of every EU member state).

I did meet a startup some years ago that claimed that their computer vision was not video surveillance since they did the video stream processing on-device and only emitted events (not video) to the network, so perhaps there is a way to do it nowadays.

I would love to hear your perspective on the current compliance concerns for this type of computer vision systems.
South Korean company created coronavirus test kits in three weeks
The draft affects a relatively small amount of college athletes.
In Bitcoin, you trust only your own node. You don't place any trust in particular third-parties - you only accept communication from a large number of randomized nodes in hope that at least one of them is honest, which is sufficient to reveal the dishonesty of all others. (ie, you have not been eclipse attacked).

You then need to have confidence that humans will always act in their own self-interest, and that you are not important enough that a sufficiently large portion of participants would act against their own interest in attempt to try and scam you.

Acting against your own interest means deliberately losing money by trying to coerce a large number of economic participants to act against their own self-interest in order to benefit you.
Getting 1000 FPS Out of the Raspberry Pi Camera
Yup, Korea's Patient #31 made things a lot worse, or else they would be doing much better right now.
Juul made the product so the user experiences the same nicotine spike and addictive rush as normal cigarets give. Sounds pretty malicious to me because it introduces ambiguity into how healthy and addictive vaping is.
Nowhere near enough people opt out for it to matter, nor will they, hence my comment's position.
Yes it was a real crisis.
Yes it was well handled.
In times of cheap oil prices, the forward curve is often in contango.

That means that the price for a prompt delivery is cheaper than a delivery in the future.
So if you go long crude with futures, each month you have to roll your contracts before they expire, and buy a more expensive one. So you end up paying a premium.

Kinda like if you want to store oil to speculate, you have to pay for storage.

You might as well buy a basket of oil majors stocks, which are a pure play on oil prices
After watching a lot of MOOC courses, people get a lot better writing with a mouse with practice. I think a much better solution is a Wacom or a tablet. I just dusted off an old Wacom for my wife to scribble personal notes now that she's working from home. For awhile she's been using an iPad in meetings.

I've often pushed for having a personal white board just do dump out my own ideas for both personal and group settings. For lectures, we've just pointed a camera at the whiteboard. This is problematic because many whiteboards are shiny and you have to get most web cameras pretty far away to frame the whole thing. I've seen some experimental software that will detect markers and composite it over the image (for when people stand in front of the whiteboard--another common issue) or just increase the contrast of the writing.

I think it's a mix of new tools and new software instead of just new software using the same mouse+keyboard+Internet.
Medicago Announces Production of a Viable Vaccine Candidate for Covid-19
MLS suspended it's season for 30 days. MLB opening day postponed for at least two weeks. NHL suspended it's season.

Nascar is likely next.
Except the NCAA tournament has been around since 1939 and never been canceled. Neither has the NIT, which started in 1938 and was considered the preeminent tournament until the 50’s.

So really, what’s decided regarding eligibility will set the precedent going forward. Hopefully it won’t ever have to be referenced though.
> the Fed is injecting new fiat money into the economy and it's going straight into the pockets of rich financial institutions which add no value whatsoever to the economy or society.

Financial institutions control who gets levered money (loans). They provide a huge value to an economy and society in a fractional reserve banking system.

You are upset about the Fed, when you should be upset about the government who controls fiscal policy. The government can provide tax holidays and other benefits more directly to people, as is their role, not the Fed.
It's to make it easier for teenagers to sneak into schools. This product was designed from the ground up with the goal of getting teens to use it.
The two questions are how old are you? And do you have any health issues. If you're under 40 and no health issues then keeping yourself isolated is most important, because you're unlikely to have a serious outcome.

Best would be if there is a drive through clinic. Difficulty is likely you don't have a car.
https://grin.mw

https://grinflation.com/

1 Grin per second, forever.
Just curious, does anybody know how did Japan manage to do so well, inspite of a very old population.

Also what does HN think is the better place to be right now? A mega city or a small village?
The kids playing are the least at risk. It’s their fellow passengers, people they meet and who serve their food, clean their hotel rooms, fans, etc who are at risk.
So what else do you think they are losing from not having a tournament?
> It is especially important to reach Spanish people.

The page is in english?

> I do not know any [Spanish people] unfortunately at the moment yet.

Not knowing the target audience is a bad start.

> The message must be shared as much as possible and to the highest decision makers as possible.

Be realistic. The decision makers get 1000 pieces of information all day about the Covid-19 crisis. They will contact experts in their respected field not a website with statistics and advise to deep distance and washing hands. It's hard not be too harsh here but you setting yourself an unrealistic goal.

> It is important to back my generalizations with the actual research as much as possible.

Sorry, that makes it even less believable.
Black market goods aren't going to be certified by anyone you can trust, nor can you trust black market goods to contain what they claim to contain.

People harming themselves with unsafe illegal goods is one of the costs of making certain substances illegal and taxing others so heavily that black market demand for them can thrive. Governments should weigh the harm done by black market goods against the benefits of substance control.

Regulations and certifications don't necessarily make things safe, but they at least help protect people from things known to be dangerous. Put black market goods in your lungs at your own peril.
I don't like e-cigarettes one way or another but I have to say, I admire the decision to step down from any CEO. Too many of them hang on to the product for a long time even when they're already billionaires (or at least in the higher echelons of multimillionaires.) I'd much rather see the more successful people exercise mobility and try their hand at new projects. If you have the skills and knowledge to make a revolutionary product, why stop at one?
I wish the Palm Pre would have taken off. Loved the keyboard layout; it was extremely well thought out
I'd like to know the impact on Vegas
The software maintenance research literature from 1999 to 2002 ish is littered with this kind of stuff as researchers got to embed in teams doing one off massive maintence projects to fix y2k stuff.
The abstract seems to say "we don't know, but we'd expect it's bad." Is that right?
The opportunity to play at the highest level they'll ever play at?
How a 'growth mindset' can lead to success
I can't go bankrupt by buying option contracts.
I assume the following [1] will be filed in the Federal Register beginning with this paragraph that starts with:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States

and then starting with the words

by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America

[1]: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation...
Beginners should be using a friendly IDE to start with.
Signed, Sealed, & Undelivered – a collection of unopened 17th century letters
For line drawing, tablets seemed weird for my brain. I'd rotate the tablet to draw comfortably, but a straight line is different because my monitor didn't rotate. But if you look online, people clearly get used to things like this with enough practice.

Cintiqs, iPads, and other tablets don't require this adaptation, though. I've also been kind of amazed how well people can write using mice when forced to (from watching MOOC classes).
If Italy is the second oldest country in the world after Japan, how do they have 800 deaths compared to 16 in Japan? Something about those numbers seems off. Is it because Japan's elderly population tend to live in rural areas compared to Italy's or something else societally related?
> I would say the answer to #1 is that spread is absolutely inevitable.

The WHO disagrees: https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-...

> "Test everyone!" To what end? You don't need to test people in order to know if they need an ICU. The ICUs are not full - and you don't need more testing to tell you that. The main benefit to more testing would be that people who are self-quarantining due to potential exposure could maybe stop self-quarantining earlier. That's a fairly marginal benefit.

Germany was ahead of the curve testing people and as a result (so far) they are weathering the virus much better than most other countries (including the US):

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-03-10/german...

It's not all about the testing for them but in the article they do count it as a key reason why they are doing well so far.
Based on the feedback from people's comments here, I realize we should do more to alleviate the privacy concerns. Curious on to know your thoughts about the following aspect:
As I mentioned, we only store short video clips corresponding to events that the user created (we already discard the other motion clips that are deemed as irrelevant by our models.) We also allow users to delete the the alerts they have received and when they delete each alert, we permanently delete the corresponding video clips from our dbs... does that help alleviate your concerns?
My guess is large city: possibly better health services, possibly higher priority if supply lines are affected. I don't think population is a big factor as long as you isolate yourself, since even in a small village, if someone is infected, it'll eventually get to you if you're exposed. Not an educated guess though.
It's not a game to those players. It's their life. If they don't want to get the flu it should be their choice not to play.
Well by this metric we have a pandemic of smartphone usage that poses an immediate public health risk.
And a psychological impact. It would have been a very welcome distraction for me. I realize there are many people who won't notice it is missing but quite a few people would have had a nice way to distract themselves while socially isolating themselves at home. It is a shame we waited so long to take action to prevent the spread of covid19 in the USA that this became necessary given the risks we face.
Right but "good public transit" in the context of a Citylab article means "spends a lot of tax dollars on public transit."
You mean besides all those people that died from vaping?
The reason for the doom and gloom is this weird system we have wherein the strength of the economy is based on human belief in the strength of the economy. Because of this circular relationship, positive feedback events can occur very quickly and result in the material effects of poverty, homelessness, and hunger.
I don't read anything in the article which I would consider political, or taking a "side" other than admitting the issues mentioned exist. Nowhere is any specific political party or ideology mentioned or blamed.

I don't know why TBL would lose credibility, or what he would lose credibility in, specifically.
I always get the worst headaches whenever I'm withdrawing from caffeine.

Withdrawing from nicotine is pretty minor in comparison. Mainly just cravings, and they subside after a week or so depending on how long I had been vaping
Coronavirus has OJ Simpson worried about his cash
oh now I am .curious what that person did?
The best thing that could have happened to you is to get interviewed in C (!!!) when then position is supposedly for C++, and eventually you learned from people that worked for that company, that they just wanted a WordPress webmaster LOL!

I'm not kidding, this is what happened to me 4 years ago.

Don't worry about your intermediate level.

For sure I can honestly say that I am more than honored to have a 'PhD' in C++'s "hello world" :D

It's a language that I would love to work on exclusively for the rest of my life, if I could get hired much like those stories we read about back in the early '90s.

They were hiring pretty much anyone who had an interest in computing, even if they were working on something completely unrelated to technology, and they were willing to train them.

The fun times...
This is ridiculous.

> he could shut down travel from affected countries

This is a good thing, and something that does in fact save lives. It is the international equivalent of social distancing. It is good that we have a president willing to take this step. This need not be political, and I would hope any president, regardless of party, would be willing to do this relatively easy thing to save american lives.

> 3) he could fail to empower and financially support disease research and prevention programs and government organizations

The FDA regulations that ensured that COVID tests weren't sent to market are not unique to the trump administration.

With regards to misinformation... Trump announced in his speech that his administration is encouraging people to engage in social distancing. He put forth a quarantine order. They are considering issuing guidance to close schools. He also used his executive authority (which of course does not include funding) to provide funds to small business -- those most at risk of collapse. These are all measures that work.
U.S. Women in Tech Are Paid Less Than Men–Except in Minnesota
S. Korea is very interconnected as a society. Technology does have a role but people are generally receptive of personal information being collected and used. For example, in order to hand out the proper number of masks, they have APIs which allows a database to inventory pharmacy mask handouts. In the face of a crisis, are Koreans forfeiting their privacy or are they trying to curb a bad situation? Americans would definitely not tolerate any info sharing and now there are strict laws against information collection.
>> For example a CEO that buys another company, the result of which is hitting a milestone that triggers a big bonus for them but saddles the company with a bunch of debt and expense that drags down its productivity. That is bad. Versus the same example where the CEO buys another company and the combination results both in them getting a bonus as well as the combined company doing better than the sum of the individual companies. That is good.

Mergers are always risky. CEO can do all the analysis possible but can't know for sure if combined company will do better or worse than individual parts. That part of the job is called "taking calculated risks".
Illinois just approved sports books and casinos were rushing to open their betting windows before the tournament. Oops.
Rust is still new and shiny, and is still evolving at a rapid pace. Everyone's still learning Rust, I'd imagine that even Rust core contributors are still learning Rust! (The same can be said for most other languages too, although not all to the same extent). Anyone who is looking for Rust talent right now, and who discards the CVs of people "still learning", clearly knows nothing about Rust, nor about hiring good devs.
Italy has an older population, hence more susceptible to deaths and spreading of the virus:

- Average age of death due to Coronavirus in Italy is 82 [1]

- In Italy, 3.65% of the population is 80 or older [2].

- In Korea, 1.75% of the population is 80 or older [3]

[1] https://www.epicentro.iss.it/coronavirus/bollettino/covid-19...

[2] https://www.populationpyramid.net/italy/2019/

[3] https://www.populationpyramid.net/republic-of-korea/2019/
Would you be able to explain what did they do?
Just skimmed some patents being mentioned. I'm surprised that such a engineering company is trying to make money using such a non-technical patents. Very disappointed on IBM.
SK is american's dog, so they hide/fake data
Alive 2 Part 1: Introduction
I generally hate being woken up at night or having to work at night. But there is something electrifying in the atmosphere when you get a bunch of smart people in a room at 2 in the morning to solve a major problem as quickly as possible. Some part of me really enjoys late night war rooms.