skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>it will be too late for this facile "the benefits outweigh the costs" bullshit.

No it won't, because the horrible, but realistic, take is that the benefits indeed will outweigh the costs. For all the people who are not targets of the pogroms.

Horrible as it sounds, a lot of people don't really care about things that happen to other people. Even if those other people die. Especially when the other people are not like them.

Sometimes I wonder whether apathy is the true root of evil, not really money. I'm no different, I'm guilty of that tendency towards apathy as well. I'm certainly up in arms about privacy, but I really don't get the same way about women's issues. Nor black guys being gunned down by cops in their apartments. I may lament those situations, but I certainly don't donate money or time to those and other causes.

Point is, root of the issue is that no one cares. Everyone has their own concerns. Which is democracy. And that's great.

But inherent in that environment is a kind of built in "divide and conquer" quality that provides political and economic élites a convenient control mechanism.
And TouchID.
"It's meant to be used with..."

You lost me right there. I don't care how Alacritty wants the world to work. I care how I want things to work.
Any music production geeks have a recommendation on whether a relatively maxed out new Mac Mini could be a worthy DAW? Keep in mind I need macOS to use Logic, and don't want the hassle of a Hackintosh.
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Thanks! Still learning about it, but I think I'll join.
Linking source of data would be great since there are too much fake information about Covid-19 on internet.
This should have started months ago when it hit China to help them.

So try to be forward thinking. Don't just think in the now.

In Italy some places don't treat people without families for instance (The excuse is they have no one to care for them after ICU, but we know the real reason)

Tinder for fake family's for instance?
Even if they're cooked, the handler could have contracted it during preparation.

I don't know Chinese culture well enough to know if we can solve this problem through market controls (might just shift to the black market), so we should be focusing efforts on identifying and understanding viruses and bacteria that could transfer to humans so we can stay a step ahead of disease. I'm sure we're doing a lot of that now, so perhaps we just need to adjust funding.
From my colleague's and my experience: the iPad pro is a manager's dream. It's lightweight, you can take notes (either by writing or by typing), you can attend remote meetings with it, it works with all* websites... basically it's everything your average manager or C-level exec could ever want in one package.

You are right, however, in that long-form typing (say, over 1k words) and serious multitasking (>2 apps, or 2 apps that refuse to side-by-side) will be a real pain on a tablet. However, you can hook an iPad pro up to a standard USB-C dock and use it with a large monitor as well as a standard keyboard. It will never be a full laptop replacement (though if Apple made it possible to run base MacOS I might change my mind), but it's good enough.

* The only websites I've ever had issues with are those that explicitly break the experience.
Definitely going from 2015 MacBook Air to this new one for my personal at-home coding laptop, as long as I like the keyboard when trying it out.

I had really been wanting to upgrade for Retina & better processor but I knew they would upgrade the processor and fix the keyboard if I waited for 2020... no reason to wait now.

I don't run any crazy fat Docker stacks for my own stuff at home, so this is perfect.
Musk is going to be totally destroyed later for that, especially as COVID-19 spreads in the US. I don't understand the logic over this decision to stay open 'because fears are overblown.' Especially since it's clear that the biggest problem isn't going to be coronavirus, which will pass within a few month, but an economic recession that will follow. Tesla is going to be hammered either way, why risk your employee health now?
Regular bowel cancer and cervical cancer screenings are provided by the NHS - the former from 50 here in Scotland (possibly because of our atrocious diets).
Did anyone really think two weeks would be sufficient? I don’t know anyone that did, and I suspect this is what led to what you call “panic buying” which I call “rational preparation for a long sequestration”
What I think is the takeaway from this is that there is a real need for a platform-agnostic application layer above the native OS. It's a peculiarity of history that HTML evolved into it, and not Java, Flash, Silverlight, Adobe Air, etc.. Probably because the timing was right for applications to exist at least partially remotely.

It's fun to dream about a more deliberate replacement, with the same local/remote transparency of a web app, but with well thought out abstractions for local hardware and permissions.. Like, binaries are LLVM IR, Jit'd to the local architecture. Audio is openAL, graphics are Vulkan, local devices are [no-current-equivalent-standard-API], with fine grained security on all features.
It could be run locally, or with resources streamed over network. Opening an application could just be a 'URL'..

A little like a progressive web app, but not a weird outgrowth of an old page layout standard.
This is beautiful and easy to use. Very intuitive.
No 1.5 trillion dollars for them...
Every mathematician knows that extrapolation is basically lying.
What's funny to me about this is they managed to get coronavirus below the fold on a web page ostensibly about fighting coronavirus. Instead, the entire first screen of painted content on my 15" Macbook is a "Salto" logo, a new "Salto" brand ("Salto Growth Camp EMERGEncy" --- they couldn't even use the word "Emergency" without Techcrunching it), "Brought to you by people behind LIFT99, Pipedrive, Bolt and Skype".
Researchers track how germs travel and find common contamination hot spots.
Try not to confuse the Federal Reserve (the Fed) with the Federal Government.
Wonder how this compares to the $2000 "Executive Exam" you can get in several medical tourism countries.
The Coronavirus Crisis Checklist for Startup CEOs
more than easily. Fantastic albums have been made with way less CPU / Mem grunt than these new Mac minis.
NodeJS is, but neither modules nor backends have to be.
It's quite common to spin up a bunch of docker containers that provide databases and backends locally.

This is the point at which the MBA stops being a productive environment. I'm not saying this has to be the case for every project, but if your team uses local dev environments, it's quasi standard procedure at this point.
I don't, but I see plenty of people who shoot pictures with their iPads. If the best camera was on the front, what would they use for a viewfinder?

Also, I used to be 100% remote, and I WFH plenty, so I'm on videoconferences all the time. I do not perceive the need for insanely good cameras for this.

Selfies, maybe, perhaps Instagram influencers need super-high-res selfie photos and movies.

All that being said, maybe there are uses I haven't even imagined for an iPad that has a better front-facing camera than rear-facing camera. But for my current use cases... I would say not.
The argument being made is about industrial use. Outside of electronics which have such little gold that it's not even worth the chemicals to extract it back out, Gold really doesn't have much use industrially. It's use as a currency and jewelry is quite obvious, but that's another human fiction like fiat currency. It has no other inherent value. We can't eat it. We can't even really wipe our butts with it. Gold is shiny, and remains shiny for a long time. End of story.
How exactly would debugging sacrifice the security model?
> This is the sort of problem that could be solved in a better world; collecting location data to find interactions between people would allow you to get them tested faster

NO. Global data about who interacts with who and where should NOT be available to anyone. Especially NOT to HEALTHCARE orgs, I couldn't imagine less trustworthy and skewed-incentives institutions! At least you can trust that a country's secret service like your NSA would keep most of that data safe (as in "safe even the eyes of from judges & prosecutors unless you have a national security issue" etc.). Like in I'd rather have +10k deaths from preventable contagious diseases per year and take the chance of being amongst them then having this on a wide scale.

> civic trust in our community organizations and institutions was built up over time

You have no reason to trust anyone and anything. Stop doing so.

> a responsible institution

There's no such thing. Any institution should be considered thoroughly corrupted in the absence of evidence to the contrary.

> our secret agencies are actively planning to exploit this

It's their job to do so! If you want to provide solid security in globally connected world the "protectors" need to be a bit above the law - it's OK as long as what they collect stays in their archives and you prevent them from holding political or financial power.

The point is to build societies that can function TRUSTLESSLY and where everything is SECRET BY DEFAULT unless explicitly shared.

That's the only way to have an open society! Sure, in small isolated pockets you can have your "trust" in institutions and stuff.

Otherwise it's a choice between:

(1) accept framework of trustlessness + secrecy-by-default + broad exceptions for security agencies mostly as long as they DON'T share data with anyone (no, not even to "save lives", unless you're taking more than thousands...)

(2) drop the global interconnectedness, drop most free travel and work (I don't mean relocation - you'd also need to drop the kind of temporary travel that can't be easily monitored!), move to a more localist society - here you can have trust in the institutions of your own "pocket" that you voted for yourself.

Unfortunately it seems that the pendulum will now swing towards (2) as you seem to say you prefer - ...too bad, I'm sure we could've made the global-village thing work too :( probably we need to try again when tech advances a few extra steps, eg. neural-interfaces + pervasive-AI + usable distributed financial tech. and use the tech properly to make the openness and interlinking irreversible!
In my experience, government/businesses/schools have been slow to close without confirmed test results. If you don't get the tests, no one is going to pull the trigger on quarantining. That is frustrating to me.
Except

- 16GB RAM

Can you even run Eclipse with just 16GB?!
Read Dorfman’s 1940s paper on detecting “defectives” [1].

The fundamental chemistry, as I understand it, is compatible with the method described by Dorfman.

I’ve actually reached out to MD Dr., biochemists, epidemiologists asking your very question: “Why can’t we mix samples?”

None seem unable to give me an straight answer. Most I’ve asked can’t get past the fact that you can still identify the infected individual after mixing the samples.

(Sorry dang. I know I’m banned. But I think coronavirus trumps a ban!)

[1] “the detection of defective member of a large population”
> The key mechanism seems to be VERY robust and can take a lot of pounding. Usually the particles jamming the mechanism (e.g. food crumbs) can be broken up by repeatedly banging hard on the offending key.

I've done something similar by holding the base of an electric toothbrush against a misbehaving key that couldn't be cleared by some other technique. The high-frequency vibrations seem to do a decent job of breaking up or dislodging whatever's stuck.
It is but running a single threaded build process with resource contention from chrome, vs code, slack, etc etc will improve with more cores.

If you are using make to call Babel or other JS build tools you can use the jobs flag to parallelize it and again the cores will help.
> This behavior is being systematically reinforced more and more with every recession.

Not surprising, given that employment is going ever more and more centralized. What has been, for example, two dozen airlines is now concentrated to four airlines. Mom-and-pop food stores in every village? Mostly gone, replaced by huge supermarkets. Software/startups? Picked up by the megacorps. Regional phone/internet carriers? Same thing. Banks? Same thing, especially after the fire sale following 2008 where bigger banks bought off the skeletons of smaller collapsed ones.

The ultimate advantage of modern capitalism is that it benefits from simple scaling to outright monopolic domination (where scale effects are fully exploitable). But on the other hand, this creates situations that are vulnerable to either exploitation of customers (e.g. when Uber has destroyed all local taxicabs, then it can jack up prices as it wants as they're the sole remaining provider and people need on demand transportation), exploitation of upstream vendors (e.g. Walmart with its scale can dictate vendors absolutely ridiculous terms) or to "too big to fail" status (most famous: banks, but just imagine Walmart going out of business, that would be 700k (!) people out of a job overnight plus MANY MANY MANY regions without a place to shop food).

This is why originally there was anti-trust regulation established, but it fell out of use for a couple decades now. No company should be so big that it vanishing can threaten national security (Boeing!), or hundreds of thousands of lost jobs (Walmart, McDonalds, ...), or destitute entire regions overnight, or the national food supply.
This is yesterday's news. Does anybody have today's?

Yesterday they were classified as an essential service and were allowed to stay open (even though they could & should have voluntarily closed).

Yesterday evening they lost that classification, did they open today or not?
That chart kind of proves my point though. People are moving from stocks to bonds as risk in stocks increases, yet the long-term outlook of the economy(10+ years) is largely unchanged. Despite this, the government is injecting tons of money during a time of a global quarantine that will eventually be lifted. When that lifts, people will buy a surge of supplies that they are depleting during this time, leading to a spike in demand in most things. Am I seeing this wrong?
> Sorry, but I want to help people everywhere, not just in the US. The whole world needs ventilators.

The US is part of the world. This is like people who think that global oil prices are irrelevant if the US produces more than it consumes.

They're talking about building ventilators. That causes more of them to exist in the world. Then when the US needs them, they use those instead of outbidding other countries for existing stock, causing more to be available for the rest of the world too.
Mid 2012 MBP with swapped out internals...8 years later and still the best computer I've ever owned
Even an analog jack is pretty slow (for example, with a macbook) since it's still going through the OS stack. IMO, you really want your monitor integrated with your microphone in an external setup (such as a Scarlet 2).

Then again, I'm exceptionally sensitive to monitor latency when talking, it might be fine for others.
I found an interesting genetic distance matrix on Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3AGenetic_similarities_...
"For example, as an engineer, I was interested in helping with the 1M ventilators project, but reading the description it looks like the goal is to create a reserve for the US of more than 740000 ventilators. Sorry, but I want to help people everywhere, not just in the US. The whole world needs ventilators."

Just because the description appears that way doesn't mean you could not join the team/project and bring a broader more global perspective that may not have been considered. On top of engineering, a bigger vision (backed with appropriate strategy) can be value-add to an initiative, why not simply pitch/propose it?
> Without needing a flashlight, you can stumble around a dark room (maybe outdoors at night?) without running into walls.

The iPad screen would act like a flashlight, just you'd be pointing it at your face instead of at the world.
I have used Acer, Dell, HP, and Lenovo. Lenovo swaps the FN and CTRL compared to everyone else, cannot stand that keyboard as it messing with muscle memory. After moving from a Dell XPS-13 to a HP Envy 13, HP has the best keyboard experience on a laptop. Having the PU, PD, END, HOME as a separate column on the right makes life grand, no FN + action needed to use some of the most useful keys when reading or viewing content.
This is almost literally straight of out 1984. I actually can't believe they wrote that.
What else are technocrats and bureaucracies to do? They've been on a hiring spree for decades. Apparently at the expense of manufacturing and efficiency.
Try pressing the windows key (granted, it's not as pretty as Spotlight).
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I moved to Germany and learnt German and looked around for the German developer internet: it just doesn't exist.

You can list German projects in English, most of the Germans understand it really well, including most developers in Europe.
It likely is, but this is also an outgrowth of the "explorer" sort of mindset where people juts see themselves as diving into the unknown to see what they find. It's not malicious, but it could contribute to p hacking for sure
yes because it's a choice.
If anyone is interested, I made a subreddit to discuss over-the-counter drugs, supplements, and other treatments for Covid—19:

https://www.reddit.com/r/covid19stack
This is a silly comment. The site existing is better than nothing, it's a step in the right direction.

And, projects can be added for any location. Stop complaining and take action.
People were skewering Charter for this same behavior and identical responses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22609038
Just wait until you try the front facing camera on a MacBook (in my case, the Air from 2019). It's so horrible compared to any recent iDevice from the last years. I don't understand why they don't improve them to match the mobile quality at least.
down side loss risk is huge, up side gain risk is not huge. So bold and illogical decision it seems.
They use the year and a model number, but not in the marketing. Everymac is a good resource: https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_mini/index-macmini.ht...
In the last couple years, yes. But Apple has been playing the long game and tightening the noose in order to pull the rug on all Hackintoshs one day.
I did development for Github on an iPad for a while while my Macbook Pro was getting serviced. If you look around the threads here you'll hear from others who have also done development on an iPad.

it's certainly lighter weight than developing on a mac pro (understatement!), but for web development, especially in a n environment where you have staging environments to host services... It gets the job done.

And while this is a matter of taste, when I was working remote, I preferred a lighter, smaller machine for going to cafés.
docker on mac does indeed leverage a VM as the docker host, since a Linux kernel is required
> The argument being made is about industrial use. Outside of electronics which have such little gold that it's not even worth the chemicals to extract it back out, Gold really doesn't have much use industrially. It's use as a currency and jewelry is quite obvious, but that's another human fiction like fiat currency. It has no other inherent value. We can't eat it. We can't even really wipe our butts with it. Gold is shiny, and remains shiny for a long time. End of story.

Sounds like a very scientific position you've laid out here against the editors ate geology.com. Why don't you send that to them and post there response here?
Replacing /Windows/System32/Drivers/etc/hosts isn't black magic and truly works wonders even for the more paranoid ;)

What I don't understand about this, however, are people being paranoid about W10 while they're happily accepting Google and friends to infiltrate their lives ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You are of course exempt if you don't use any cloud-based services that you don't host yourself :D
I think the best option is to understand these viruses better, so we should be increasing funding to stay ahead of the next disease. Ideally, we could identify a set of likely deadly viruses so we can be ready to develop vaccines if necessary.
The burden of proof was hard to pass because the Windrush landing cards were destroyed due to a decision made under a Labour government.
I use it on my Gazelle and have been surprised how well it works. All the user friendly helpers, even including their "app store" (which is essentially an APT GUI) are actually useful.

The only issues I had with it were the lack of setup wizard support with LUKS and Dualboot to Windows w/ Bitlocker (for Games) over GRUB, so I had to configure everything manually.

Other than that, it works like a charm - unless it hits the proprietary Nvidia blob driver (no real hotplug for HDMI and mini-DP, sometimes screen tearing on big displays). But that is not a popOS! issue and most of the time it works fine.
Still no real GPU.

It's the reason I went back to a MacBook. What drew me in is the desktop class i7. At the time the Mini outperformed all other Macs in benchmarks, and it is noticeable and fast during compile times etc.

Once you connect a 4k Screen (or even more screens), an eGPU becomes a must have. The integrated one just can't do smooth UI rendering. For example typing in IntelliJ always felt laggy, because it takes so long to redraw I guess. Or things like Google Maps on satellite view in a big browser window will stutter a lot. All the subtle macOS animations aren't smooth and so on.

Bothered me so much I had to sell it. Was thinking about keeping it as media center for the TV, but again, no GPU makes it less then ideal, and its way too powerful for the job otherwise.
Export controls and the US-China tech war
With the new keyboard attachment the front camera isn't even at the top of the iPad, it is on the left/right edges. That's a large oversight.

As to video conferencing, it depends on what you're doing. If you're presenting a meeting and are being projected onto a conference room's TV/projector, the quality matters.
Quit being hostile to people trying to help. It's the lowest of the low you can be during a world-wide crisis.
Well take away the ads, a more useful thing would be planning furniture
And of course my doubled key happens right when my only option for going to an Apple Store is to go to China.
I have been using Linux/Unix boxes for 19 years. I am ashamed to admit that I never learned this until now. Thanks!
If they continue what they were doing for TX2 [^1] , you might get double socket in 1U.

Meaning 192 cores per U.

[1]: https://www.gigabyte.com/ARM-Server/R181-T90-rev-100
Given that the problem also apparently happens with Firefox, perhaps the latter?
I think many people -- Americans or otherwise -- are global in their mindset. Its just hard to translate your language and your network and friends and learnings into something that might be relevant everywhere.
Correct, ArchLinux symlinks /bin, /sbin and /usr/sbin to /usr/bin.
Its an interesting question. Everything that I'm hearing tells me that workers are still going to work.
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Yeah and the iPad already allows code execution/debugging with Playgrounds, Pythonista, etc. You can even run a full Linux shell locally on an iPad with iSH (https://ish.app/).
The very concept of "breaking ties" with min/max suggests that something woolly and ill-defined is going on; surely x and y are either equal or they are not?
I have here a 2015 1.2Ghz/8GB/512GB live and kicking. but for cpp development it was very slow.
but it was great form-factor. though my fav machine is still my MBA 2013" I have upgraded it with 2TB and it's still a great machine.