skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this case it actually seems kind of rational.

It's really hard to process all the information that's available about what's going on; it's changing constantly, there's no consensus on a lot of stuff, the numbers and curves are highly unnatural to think about even if they didn't have massive uncertainty in their variables, and on and on.

As an example, instead let's talk about the lottery. If I hear that a movie star won the lottery, that's pretty surprising. I didn't expect to ever even know the name of someone that wins the lottery. The odds are really, really long and I don't know the names of enough people. And oh, an NBA player won the lottery today too? OK, well maybe this lottery doesn't work the way I was thinking.
In the Amazon Grocery Store in the Capitol Hill Neighborhood of Seattle it takes them over an hour to charge you and send you a receipt.

Doesn't seem like they perfected automated tracking yet. This screams manual human review of video footage -- seems like they are still collecting data for a future ML model.
They are fitting a Lagrangian that doesn't depend on time, so conservation of energy is wired into the system. It's not learning a symmetry.
If you believe the numbers, the UK has 6.9 per million infected, and the USA has 4.1, so they're pretty similar.

You shouldn't believe the numbers, though, because the USA is barely testing people—and not because they aren't sick; testing in the US is often expensive, as obviously idiotic as that is. I'd expect the USA to have a higher number of infected per capita in actuality.
Similar experience and position to yours, but for three years. There were some good people and the product had a very novel appeal when you first encountered it.

Eventually what caused this meltdown are two things:
1. Rony’s reality distortion field extending way too far for the companies own good
2. A complete lack of managerial cohesion and competence. Turf wars, selfishness, lack of vision.
Very rarely anyone got fired. Resources were wasted on multiple parallel efforts which were politically driven. The company spread geographically very early with very little cooperation or shared culture.

There were some talented individuals but shadowed by what was going on with the senior management.

I still have a warm place for the company, the product and the people, but the real magic is that they survived for so long going like that.
> Correct, not even close, and never will be in any conceivable future. The idea that a twitter mob could somehow ever be comparable in power to a government demonstrates a serious disconnection from reality and the power that governments exercise over their people all around the world and all through the annals of history.

That's a trick of definitions: when an organisation acquires particular kinds of power we call it a "government", regardless of how it's structured or operates. Historically it's completely normal for states to be taken over by religious groups, by social movements, by corporations, by criminal gangs. And in most of history there has been very little respect for freedom of speech, for the right to say unpopular things and not suffer devastating personal consequences, for the idea that there's such a thing as a loyal opposition, or an honest mistake. If we believe that's important - and I do - then it's not enough to just protect speech from governments. Maybe 200 years ago only governments and major religions wielded enough power to ruin lives, and so constitutional protections and strict laws on freedom of religion were enough. But in these days of megacorps and large social movements that's no longer true.

> So what are you proposing?

That firings should be required to be for cause, and there should be reasonable protections even for fired workers in terms of notice periods, payments and the like - similar to the way it works in France (or most developed countries really). That really vital things (in particular, healthcare) should be done by a provider that's obliged to serve everyone rather than a private company that's permitted to arbitrarily withdraw coverage.

> An asshole is not a "class" of people, it's a behavioral disposition.

Or it's anyone you don't like. In any case, the rationale for protected classes isn't about the fact that they're classes, it's about the risk of suffering coordinated action from others - which nowadays applies to people who've said unpopular things too.

> Nobody needs to be an asshole.

Nobody needs to be a particular religion, but that's still a protected class.
It did, RedHat, Mandrake and SuSE as well.

However the result wasn't that good, as you still needed to select what kind of development you wanted, as the default preselection might not fit your own workflow.
Most journalism is a commodity business now with writers publishing dozens of stories per day. There's no big pipeline of drafting, copyediting, fact checking and editorial review anymore.
I would've thought that the closer personal contact in Southern Europe (hugging/kissing for greetings) would spread it faster. But if you look at infection rates, most more Northern countries now look pretty similar to how it spread in Italy 1-2 weeks ago. So not sure if culture actually plays a role.

I guess it's all down to the economy, business travel spread it a lot. that's why areas with strong economies seem to be affected more than others (at least in Spain, Italy and Germany). Banning travel could work quite effectively for that.
Nice. Thanks for the recipe.

Now, I can package my own brand, and sell it on the intersection, across from the guy selling a $5 bag of oranges.

$100/bottle of Fresh Dreams Hand Sanitizer
Only Nixon could go to China, only Trump can stop gatherings.
> I began to carry a gun every day, dealing with the PTSD issues, and fourteen months later I shot a man and unfortunately caused his death.

He doesn't really seem to want to take responsibility for killing someone. I am sure solitary is terrible, but so is being killed by someone like him.
Thank you for your offer! I too would be interested if there are still invites available.
One thing though; which airline will fly only american citizen back from europe? will they fill a plane with those customers only? I think my main concern is that most if not all major European airlines will cancel all flights, regardless if there are a couple of US citizen on the flights. Meaning it's probably still going to be somewhat problematic to get back (if not from London then of course)
Just get browns, they're not so bad that they will bother anyone but the most fussy coworker. They're louder than laptop keyboards but as loud as some regular non-mech keyboards.
He issued it by now (though the tweet reads as if written by someone else). I think it would've been a disaster banning cargo, with little benefit. Banning people could actually help to slow the spread of the virus. And ironically it could help Europe if they get infections better under control than the US.
It's absolutely cruel and unusual punishment. The American Constitution forbids this. I've only spent three days straight in a county solitary cell for a silly threat to a judge. In that scenario, it was a glass walled cell in the high security block. Every surface is cement, and your only clothes are a Velcro tunic/blanket. Surveillance is continuous. There, the non-compliant were beaten and strapped to a wheelchair for days and not their bed. They also open your cell to let a violent offender "clean your cell for you" on a regular basis. It was awful in a way entirely unto itself in my memory. I can't even begin to imagine the conditions and lengths of time in this article.
Sounds like hell, the way he describes it.

However, if you'd take those hellish elements away & ensure silence, I think long solitary confinement might work if you teach people how to meditate. That's just not being done enough in prisons right now. See "Doing Time, Doing Vipassana" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkxSyv5R1sg

EDIT: I know this is probably a controversial opinion to non-meditators, but if you're going to downvote, at least provide an argument for why you don't agree.
Microsoft identity acronyms–what do they mean and how do they relate
Allow me to rephrase then: while the overall population density of the US is low, we have some pretty large dense areas, including Southern California and the northeast megalopolis
Our justice system is right, at most, 96% of the time. I'm not comfortable knowing anyone is tortured, even if you believe it is 'justified.' Knowing some prisoners are innocent makes it even more obvious that humane treatment is the only reasonable course of action.
That's exactly the mentality that got Italy into their current situation. I see people downvoting me here, but I guess that's America in a nutshell. Those downvoters will be sorry in 2 weeks.
What do you mean “he doesn’t take responsibility”? He’s not saying that he shouldn’t have been to prison, he’s sharing an experience being tortured by the state while purging his prison sentence.
Actually I do have a question - how safe is this for eyes (human or animal?) and what changes are needed to make it safer?

How about measuring through translucent or transparent surfaces? Should work as is if there is no reflection (e.g. measurement at Brewster’s angle for this wavelength) but is it possible to TOF multiple reflections from? Or multiple depth slices (e.g. by gating TOF to specific depth ranges? 1ns=~1ft=~30cm
That's a really good dataset (with a really clunky visualization, but hey!)

Indeed. There are typically above 3000 deaths/week due to Pneumonia and 200/week due to influenza at this time of year. We had a smallish spike in mid-late January, where for 3 consecutive weeks, deaths were above trend at nearly 4000 & 400 per week.

If you assume a 1% mortality rate for COVID, and you assume all deaths are due to pneumonia, and you assume the entire late-January spike is due to COVID, that could be hiding 300,000-400,000 US cases. (To be clear, those are all questionable assumptions! The mortality rate could easily be either lower or higher, a meaningful fraction of deaths might not show as pneumonia or influenza, and it is normal for there to be a moderate spike above trend at some point in the flu season)

That doesn't mean that there were or weren't a few hundred thousand cases in that time -- it just means that some significant number of cases could easily hide in "routine-looking" spikes in the graph.

This does mean, though, that it is unlikely that everybody who got "the really bad flu" that's been going around this year actually had COVID -- but, especially if you live in a place with lots of people who travel to China regularly (like I do!), it isn't unreasonable to wonder if that "really bad flu followed by a lower-respiratory-tract infection that tested negative for influenza" you got in late January/early February wasn't really COVID.

(Remember, though, that while the rapid influenza test has a pretty low false-positive rate, it's got about a 50% false negative rate -- so testing negative shouldn't lead you to assume it isn't influenza)
Snapchat filters.
Oh god Landau & Lifshitz, that wakes memories. That was hardcore
Strict scrutiny requires not only a compelling state interest but that the restriction be narrowly tailored and the least restrictive means that satisfies the purpose. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_scrutiny .
At a carnival party in Germany with 350 guests, more than 40 were infected by a single guest. That gives an idea how well it spreads in enclosed spaces. You can assume there was somewhat close contact, but I've been to business meetings with also at least 5-10 people <6ft from me. That's how it can spread through a company within days.
For those that care about graphics programming and hardware video acceleration, it is the same hit-and-miss as always, it hardly changed other than drivers crash less, specially on laptops.

So while the 2D accelerated Ubuntu desktop might work quite well, if one starts pushing it on GL/Vulkan, intends to watch hardware accelerated video on the browser, actually switch between their multiple laptop GPUs, the experience is less than stellar.
I think this alludes to an important difference about US vs. other countries. The US has no social safety net, or a very thin one. A harsher criminal justice system makes sense when the consequences are so much greater for the victims of crimes. A family that loses its breadwinner can be on the street in no time.
Don't be a wanker.
The US and U.K. rise or fall together.
The two countries have an alliance unlike any other in the world.
Neither turns it's back on the other.
(And, by extension, Canada.)
I really like this JS-free future we have ahead of us. I mean, I needed to format a date as text recently, and JS can't even do that without downloading some library... The sooner we'll be able to use real languages on the front-end, the better.
Two wrongs don't make a right. It certainly satisfies some primal urge to see a criminal get punished, but we also need to distinguish between young individuals in difficult circumstances making bad choices from how we decide to run our societal systems—there needs to be a higher bar for the latter. Leaving humanitarian issues aside for a moment: do privatized prisons w/ a punishment mentality actually reduce crime?
Microsoft Named a Leader in the Forrester New Wave: Functions-as-a-Service
Almost all reals are not computable, but as far as I know min is total - given two reals (represented as e.g. lazy infinite decimal sequences), computing their min is trivial.
It mostly spread through travel, a lot of it business travel. Little spread in less developed countries are likely because of less travel activity.
Big money from few players

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEO_Group

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoreCivic
Code search was “too good to be true, gotta pinch myself” awesome. I miss it to this day.

Here is how I used it - I’d type in some code I was working on and the search result would show similar code and how it was used. Great for debugging and thinking by looking at similar solutions. Sigh.
>Not sure where they get their data

The source for each of the figures is in the last column of the table.

Did you just want to post Ontario's numbers (Canada was not in the table at all) or are you questioning the accuracy of the worldometers page?
For offline I would recommend SQLeo[0]. It has been around for a long time but I have yet to find something more powerful when exploring a new database or visually constructing queries. You can also visualise queries not created using SQLeo. Don't be put off by the dated look and feel, you can change the look and feel using some startup parameters.

[0]https://sourceforge.net/projects/sqleo/
If ECC was made for the same markets as normal memory, it would cost <12% more and make entire computers cost <2% more, with no meaningful performance hit. It's reasonable and should be mainstream.

You want ECC for trusted code, too.
Suddenly everyone is an armchair president, virologist, and strategist.

No, shutting down the travel from a country with an outbreak that is not contained is not a bad idea.

Stop politicizing this matter and either trust your government or go to your bunker.

Everyone the past week has been plain fearmongering and it's disgusting.
That is really besides the point, because this article is about the third world, or should I say medieval prison system in the USA. That system is a crime against humanity in far too many ways. It is just one of the things many Europeans just don't get why you think it's acceptible. The prison system in the USA is a major cause of crime, not a solution. No civilized country has jailed up anywhere near the percentage of the population as the USA
Also, most of people just read the headlines.
And with fewer pre-existing conditions. People that already have the flu or coughs for other reasons are more likely to need treatment. Late spring or summer usually has empty hospitals and fewer people experiencing a cold, helping with the treatment of Covid
It's really neat!

Note this is k7 - dev has since moved to k9. k7 will be remembered as the 'Unicode symbols' experiment of k; for example nulls were slashed zeroes (Ø) and pi was, well, the pi symbol. k9 dropped them as they're not easy to type across all OSes without config or a dedicated editor.

k9 also has the nice dedicated 'cut' symbol, and a few other improvements, but it's not done yet.
Yes, I do. Thanks. Edited.
Using Power Platform to extend the Health Bot COVID19 triage assessment template
If I have to be hospitalized, and nobody should enter my apartment for three days to take care of my cats, and it turns out it’s unwarranted, that’s a big inconvenience for me.
Living in Germany, I don't have the impression at all that the country is doing much compared to Italy.
>Unless you're planning to hermetically seal yourself into your home for the next 8 weeks

Way ahead of you
The president says that clearly in his address.

However the stuff about cargo being included is really odd. As if he was freestyling rather than reading.

Other than that; I fail to see the point of this. There is already community spread in the US and the UK. The ban seems arbitrary and politicized.
Create a .NET Azure Cosmos DB Function Trigger Using Visual Studio Code in 2'
> At the base of it, evo-psych rests on the premise that for a behavior to persist, it must have a purpose. Asking what that purpose is, without ascribing a value judgement, seems like a reasonable avenue of inquiry.

This conflicts with the broader understanding of evolution in general, which treats "selection" (changes that have a purpose) and "genetic drift" (changes that have no purpose) separately.
That seems incredibly overpriced unless you need absolute color reproduction or some other specialty.
In the context of Rowhammer, we do already, right? Rowhammer susceptibility is considered a defect in memory modules, it's a deviation from the functional specification of the component.

See also this quote in the article. "We followed a multi-party coordinated vulnerability disclosure involving the main memory vendors"
> There is some pretty interesting things happening in Chinese universe that are hidden for language barrier.

Are there any other things you can point to that you think are overlooked?
I am very jaded against "zero trust". Google had a nice publication now everyone and their mother have a "zero trust" something.

Just ask people what the difference between zero trust and role based access control is. If you have rbac and everything uses it, is that zero trust? A smart policy engine like... Windows AD?

To me "zero trust" just means do authentication the right way for everything. You can ask 10 security companies what it means and you will get 10 diffrent answers. I fear the hype train is drowning the architectural philosophy.

Ideally, if I ping a device in some random subnet unless I am authenticated and authorized to specifically reach that node and this authorization is audited routinely my icmp packet should never reach the destination. In reality,nothing out there is that granular so people define it at diffrent levels of granularity and scope and have their own zero trust. Also, Cisco's TACACS+ was made for this. 802.1x was suppose to enable NAC for this as well (for those who don't know TACACS supports granular authorization like sudo-ish) people just never took it that far.

Zero trust is easily hijacked as a marketing slang, maybe something like "authenticated explicit authorization" is better to avoid the awkardity of having to debate "no,I don't think that is zero trust",especially given how people are trying to apply it outside of infosec.
If the stuff is clearly labelled ethanol, for cleaning/burning, made from biological sources, you can be pretty sure it's just simple continuous distilled sugar-based (likely via yeast) reasonably high-purity ethanol with mandated-by-law denaturation additives (over here in Germany that'd be ~1% methyl-ethyl-ketone and a hint of denatonium benzoate) to make it taste too bad for people to get drunk from it.

This is far from random paint thinner or random mineral-oil-based lighter fluid/accelerant.

For use on your hands the normal home and garden ethanol is sufficiently harmless, and will itself do more damage than any residues. After all, it's made for use in situations where most people don't wear gloves.
Similar? In my opinion this is much faster, easier, and less burdened by notation.
Also, here's his book: https://www.amazon.com/Writing-My-Wrongs-Redemption-American...
We'll be seeing a generation of citizens that have been raised under these conditions and will understand how to behave in order to please the "eye of Sauron" which is essentially an automated tensor processing pipeline that "flags" surveilled instances for review by a politically elevated human, or digests quarterly citizen economic behavior and determines anomalies in advance (Minority Report) which subsequently will allocate Facebook-esque content review labor.
Granted, I've only interviewed at public companies, but I've never signed a NDA in my life.
Would be no shame if some of those people ended up in the places they operated for profit.
What does the qualifier "someone like him" mean in this context? Is getting killed by anyone not terrible?

I don't see how getting killed by a former honor-roll student who left an abusive household two years before he was legally allowed to drive, had already been shot, and was left on the streets paranoid, mentally-ill and traumatized before he was even past the age of majority, is any worse than getting killed by just about anyone.
Trying to find the flute meme. Has Winston Smith removed it?
They might lose landing rights. That's often enough reason to keep flying, even with empty planes.
Bradley, oh Bradley, what has he done...
We use Keeper in our company and I have to say I like it.
It does what we need it to do. I have used KeePass before, but I prefer Keeper way more.
How is it a cause of crime?
I take a lot of notes in notion. After some time i refine the notes and extract question-style concepts that i can add in Anki.
Ask HN: How do I work remote effectively?
I'm in one of the cities in the U.S bracing for covid-19 and have been reading through the gitlab stuff about remote work.

Unfortunately, I am at a more traditional company that doesn't really do remote well.

Any tips/resources out there for being an effective team member in this type of environment?
what happened to getmagic? I thought they're doing ok
The state or government still have responsibility not to torture someone.
Our entire world system right now is predicated upon territorial sovereignty, and that the sovereign state has a monopoly on legitimate use of force. Thus a sovereign state is in a different category than an individual.

> should we be trying to kick people out of the nuclear club?

Oppenheimer and Einstein spent a lot of their later lives trying to keep people out of it, so I think you'll get a lot of answers of 'yes' to that.
German researchers identify existing drug with potential to treat coronavirus
It's reasonable for a big company to try and fail. When they don't try anything 'they're not innovative'. When they do..'oh look they failed'.
Does System76 design these machines themselves, or are they rebadged? They might not have control over what the keyboard is.
SeL4 Design Principles
RChilli Launches an Exclusive Configuration Feature
Yes, and they do. Local churches in my area are always helping the community.

Even in a time like this you choose to make snide comments towards religion? Really?
I think base:: our "std library" is pretty well written and portable.