skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
as the previous gen still had processors of the U series.

No? The base model had a i5-8210Y?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Air#Technical_specific...
Not the OP (see my other comment). For me it was the cheap hardware and the fun aspects of the project. It's a tangible thing.

But I also like ARM chips and do occasional embedded development, so I had other motives :)
Aliexpress/eBay market prices. You can even get them cheaper than that, it's just that $75 is more available.

https://m.aliexpress.com/wholesale/ED060KC1.html?keywords=ED...
You can do all that now with the mini, it has 4 thunderbolt ports.
Yeah, this post is nonsense. They won't be able to maintain this low rate indefinetely, unless they shutdown their borders for a long time.

Pandemics are a global problem, requiring a global solution. I find it strange that governments are acting very autistic about the whole ordeal. Each one going with a disconnected strategy (e.g. UK vs SK).
Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange (Boston, MA https://poloniex.com/) is still hiring, crypto markets are doing fine - we make money whether it goes up or down. Interviews over Google Hangouts. http://poloniex.careers/
> the Imperial College paper estimates 2 million dead in the US with no response and ~1 million dead with a limited response that doesn’t involve a full shutdown.

The paper points that all these estimates are based on extremely biased data.

Testing a random sample of the population to get a reliable estimate of the scale of the epidemic is dirt cheap compared to the drastic measures currently being taken.

It's incomprehensible to me that this wasn't one of first steps taken.
Thanks for sharing! It's nice to hear about this learning. Also, wasn't aware of tokio, it looks real nice.
Interesting. I've spent a lot of time "bushwhacking" off trail in our wilderness areas and one of the things I learned early on was to make a point to focus on landmarks, and more importantly, to turn around and look at where I'd just been so I could recall it on the way back because it's a completely different view.

It's a lot easier to travel off trail in areas with hills and hollows than flat lands with little variation in terrain and flora, and a compass makes a huge difference in that case, but even then stopping and turning around to look for something even a bit out of the ordinary can make a huge difference in rather you begin to panic over being lost or not.
The fact that Apple insists on both having only 2 USB-C port and still using USB3 to charge their phones, mice, and keyboards is ridiculous.

I hate both going all USB-C and having to carry a dongle or adapters everywhere, and the idiotic touchbar.

Basically, anything that Apple has done since Steve Jobs died is complete shit--even if you ignore the butterfly keyboards complete fiasco.
In times of doom and gloom, toilet paper should/would be the least of your concerns.
On a sort of related note, I presented this as an "Ask HN": Why don't [iWatch, Garmin, Fitbit] wearables have a thermometers? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22581703

I know "core temperature" is hard to take at the wrist, but I'm sure _something_ could be done. Wouldn't this benefit entire nations if the technology could be invented to have hyper-local influenza and pandemic forecasting?
It's not about being profitable. They could even maybe launch it below cost and that might help people even if it costs them. The parent talked about marketing. And people using something and benefitting from it, and then recommending to others is probably one of the best forms of it.

The optics are bad if you try to profit unreasonably. Launching something to help people become more productive, and making reasonable money out of it doesn't have bad optics.
I wonder, is it possible to create 2D holograms? That is, a sprite, or a hologram that looks the same no matter the angle?

My usecase would be a set of parentheses (as in XKCD #297 "These are your father's parentheses, elegant weapons for a more... civilized age"), or perhaps even dragon balls (the star formation are supposed to look the same no matter the viewing angle).

But I suspect that the interference pattern would in that case interfere with itself down to nothing.
This pandemic will expose who we are as a country
Personally I see all iPads as an entertainment device that happens to be not too-terrible at doing productive work.
Hit the windows key and type "disk man" and the disk manager pops up. Maybe you're just used to the OSX names for things?

Search "alert" brings up the audio settings.

I'm not sure what you're doing differently.
I'm an illustrator, and "Procreate" is the killer app for me.

If you're not calling that "real work" I'm not sure what else to tell you.
I think it does allow download, although it is a little unclear; from the previous sentence:

> By setting your repositories to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view and "fork" your repositories (this means that others may make their own copies of Content from your repositories in repositories they control).

If I clone a Github repo to my local machine this is 'making my own copy in a repository I control'. But this clause doesn't grant any further right, e.g., to compile code in the repo. This isn't an unheard-of situation: e.g., Knuth allows distribution of the TeX source to the TeXbook but not compiling the source with a TeX engine.
I expected privacy to kill people here ever since tech companies refused to name people on campuses who tested positive when they were among the first cases in the area. Keep your priorities in order folks.
If it is a state managed program it will go through the state government/governor however they may appeal to the federal government which may have further help now that various emergency measures are in place.
I don't think so at all. A prison in CA from inside or outside looks completely different than a mosque in Istanbul. Here's what you get from Google for "coronavirus prison".

https://www.google.com/search?q=coronavirus+prison&tbm=isch&...
What strikes me is how hard it is to get reliable information on what exactly is being done in specific countries.

In particular: did South Korea shut down its schools?

There is "information" everywhere but no precise or exhaustive data on who did what.
* Be careful to compute the actual cost of outsourcing (eg: include transportation costs, added time to write specifications, rework, etc). This is particularly hard to do accurately.

* Having some in-house production people help keep vendors from bamboozling on costs.

* Retain enough production in house to have enough cash flow to develop V2

* Out-source for better facilities (eg: they have higher precision machines than what you can afford), not that they are lower cost (eg: they pay their employees $2/day)

* It can make it harder to optimize the entire product
Strage!
Spotlight is better at understanding multiple languages (accidentally typing the English name on a German System often yields the right result), synonyms and results inside windows. I think this is mainly due to Apples accessibility efforts. Windows is much more picky. But most of the time you just want to start an app anyway.
Curious, why does ECC matter for remote builds? Any explanation is appreciated!
This is how you do an ESC key on iPadOS:

Command + [
The blog post is pretty accurate. I know it seems pretty general, but nearly the entire team is working remote and at the same time it's not prudent to push change on the ecosystem when everyone is trying to keep their site running.
Never try to catch a falling knife.
3D visualization of Covid-19 worldwide
Well, they have a lot of the infrastucture. The beds are different.
I suffered pay cut due to outbreak affecting my company. It was profitable and growing steadily, but due to outbreak people stopped using it (and paying). Right now we're in the red, this is not sustainable, so I think in a couple of months I will be laid off (unless situation stabilizes by then).

It's a bit scary to be in this position, as I know most companies here stopped hiring, so I'm not sure if I'll be able to find a new job quickly.
The iPad only runs tablet apps, the Surface runs anything that works on Windows 10.

I came real close to ditching my Mac + Wacom combo for a Surface + external keyboard for my art work a couple years ago, but there was a constant lag problem somewhere between my stylus motions and Illustrator that made it unusable, even after a month of regular attempts to find the one magic setting somewhere deep in the ten different control panels related to Windows' stylus drivers.
It doesn't add any benefit to my experience. I'd prefer real keys that I don't need to look at. I could hit volume up/down easily on the previous models.

Using Terminal, I use the Esc key a lot for navigating and having a touch bar Esc key is not a great experience since you also don't feel feedback that you're touching the right key.

I've also accidentally hit the touch bar a few times while hovering one of my fingers above it as I press down on one of the number keys.
My company is interviewing and hiring still, depending on what you want to work on. HQ in Alexandria, VA and main other office in Lakewood, CO are most positions. Working remotely for now in all offices.

https://careers.fool.com/
I think the idea is that if we go in lock-down for 2 weeks, infections can get back to a manageable level - and then we can open up by testing like mad.
>Coal may kill more people, but it doesn't irradiate the surrounding area for hundreds of years if something goes wrong.

Actually, coal irradiates the surrounding area when it is working properly, and it adds to global warming at the same time, it can do both!

To be clear, the major concern with nuclear disaster is ground water contamination. That is, the reactor melts through and the corium gets into the groundwater, contaminating it with radiation.

After initial evacuation, most of the elements that spread have a relatively short half life and decay quickly. The heavy elements are too heavy to get blown around, but they can irradiate other things (like water) that can get around fairly easily.

Chernobyl was a special case because they actually blew up the reactor, and their graphite moderator caught fire, so you got lots of radioactive smoke. Most plants use water or heavy water as a moderator, so at least it doesn't catch fire in a disaster (the steam cloud isn't that great either, but at least it doesn't stick to stuff).

Anyway, agree with your anti-fragile opinion in terms of the current (ancient) reactor designs. We really need a new design if it is going to be viable over a longer term.
Compared to the PDP-7 and PDP-8, the PDP-11 instruction set and architecture is a breath of fresh air.
Also, how does this merit a downvote. I know life is not fair but I hold HN community to a higher standard. Maybe things changed a lot here as well.
This seems like nonsense. Must they admit fault in every communication for the next three years? Must they use specific words while admitting fault?

There's nothing wrong with a company saying "we screwed up." Which Apple has done already. There'a also nothing wrong with a company saying, "This keyboard is great," if it is in fact great.
Money is fungible. They would have paid themselves with or without a loan, so the money they would have used to pay themselves if they hadn't gotten a loan can now be invested.
This was originally posted with an (updated) suffix in the title. The Mac Mini has not really been updated. All they did was adjust the storage tiering. Minimum is now 256G. So this amounts to a price drop.
Which NUC has 6 cores and 4 thunderbolt ports with integrated 10GbE?

I have 3 hades canyon nucs (homelab) and also a fully maxed mini. The great thing about the mini is it's versatility for expansion via TB3, as well as allowing me to triple-boot macOS, windows, and linux with minimal effort (no hackintosh workarounds needed)
Game servers are a great example. What's interesting is how many different kinds of apps need game-server like infrastructure: https://www.figma.com/blog/how-figmas-multiplayer-technology...

We've been talking to a lot of startups doing communications tools, especially for remote work.

Lots of full stack apps benefit from app servers + redis cache in different regions. They need a database connection, but if they're already done the work to minimize DB round trips they might just work with no code changes.

There are also a bunch of folks doing really dynamic video and image delivery. Where an individual user gets an entirely unique blob of binary data.
Will these new mac books support the older mac os which runs 32 bit Software? (Or does wine have a workaround)
Ah, I thought you were talking about the handheld gun versions.
Local schools are leaning heavily on chromebooks. They have checked them out to students without computers. Adding an os update to this would contribute to the chaos.
I recognized that I had to move from VB.Net to C# because that's where the jobs were 15 years ago. Anyone sticking it out now won't quit until they have zero options left.
Cross compilation from linux targeting windows is possible. I'm only doing it for C++ but I'd assume others are doable.
> The trouble is we can only get "real data" by testing more people.

We get "real data" by properly testing, not necessarily by testing more people.

Currently we are mainly testing people arriving with symptoms.

This results in underestimate of the number of infected and an overestimate of mortality and morbidity rates.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200318193005/https://www.aier....
2 people I know lost their jobs today.
I expect more to come in the coming weeks.
We'll have to leave most oil in the ground or face a very bad climate change that will decimate any short term profits.
EARLY is key. Experimenting theories in a scenario like is so risky - difficult to understand why the UK went that way.
I am not an immigrant myself, but I worked with many in the mid 2000s. My experience was that direct hire H1Bs did fine. The company is already shelling out lawyer fees for you, so presumably you're important enough for them to hang onto unless the situation is dire.

The company I worked for did also have H1B contractors whose contracts were terminated and some of those people left the country.
The active-case count is flat or perhaps beginning to fall.
Dual Port Ethernet/8GB-DDR/256GB-SSD; $499 this is a winner !
I was on H-1 in 2002 and lost my job. I was in the US for almost a year before I found something again . There was no problem for me. But things may be different now. I am also from Germany which makes things a little easier compared to what I hear from people from India or China.
Probably depends on your diet, quantity of hair, weight/cheek mass, and usual bristol score.

With TP some people need a couple of sheets and they come away with a clean sheet, others need half a roll.
Two weeks isn't nearly enough, and nobody is on true lockdown yet. Two weeks from now people are going to be questioning why we did the lockdowns, because they will appear to have had no impact at all.

The general public still doesn't realize that it's going to be two months before the shelter in place and general social distancing rules start to make a difference.

Even then, after months of lockdown, it's just going to flare up again as soon as the rules are relaxed.
I pressed "Win" and typed "Control". Control panel was the first and default choice. And my Windows is not even using English locale.

I admit that this search sometimes works strange, but it adapts to me, so when I'm launching some program often, it remembers that and will always put that program on the top.
They said that when they announced the extended warranty program on the old keyboard. People who want to hear an acknowledgement of error can go back and read that, if they missed it.

People want to hear wailing and gnashing of teeth, which is silly.
I did not know that. Insulation sounds like a good idea. I did find a site specific to the UK (https://www.diydoctor.org.uk/projects/condensationcisterns.h...) that calls it an anti-sweat valve and says it's available in the US. :)

I've never heard of an insulated toilet tank over here. I wouldn't be surprised if they start showing up, though.

My current house was built in the 80s, when the region was flush with oil money. I get the impression that building anything energy efficient was seen as a political statement, aside from the added cost to the builder.
My Garmin has a thermometer, but its purpose is to track barometric pressure. It doesn't accurately reflect my body temperature. When I go running below freezing, it usually drops down to around ~2* C. It may accurately reflect the temperature of the skin on my wrist but it's useless for telling me that I have a fever.
they weren't only testing everybody on a massive scale, they also assigned a team of like 5 people for every positive case to trace everyone they could have come in contact with
The readability process at Google is a way to gain the ability to submit code without a language style reviewer. To submit code into google3 (their main repo for server-side stuff), a changelist requires acceptance by a person or people who collectively own all of the code being changed, and a person or people who collectively "have readability" in all of the languages in the change. The simplest example is there is some C++ code that you own and you have C++ readability. In this case you need the review of anyone. If you don't have C++ readability, you need a reviewer who does have it, and they need to carefully review your change for style.

It used to be that you had to do a "readability review" which was a large change that you developed specifically to gain readability in some language. A style reviewer would approve it after (usually) many rounds of comments, and then thereafter you had C++ readability forever.

More recently some language teams have adopted incremental readability. In this process you add a language reviewer to all of your changes, and after you demonstrate that you know what you are doing, they will grant you readability. I think the Go team was the first group to adopt incremental readability, but it spread to other languages.

This process is off-putting to people who want to join Google but not be acculturated to their language style rules. There's a surprising number of these people. In mainline Google these people simply will not get bonuses, raises, and promotions. In defective organizations like Android they just discard Google code quality standards and it shows.
I had a decent amount of contracting work going before accepting the position that I had most recently, so I will probably start offering that again, depending on what kind of response I get from the applications I submit. This most recent job I got from posting in the monthly `Who's Hiring` thread back in 2018:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17205867

As far as frameworks, I'm quite familiar with React and React Native (app in Google Play and App Store), Redux, Angularjs, etc. I haven't worked with Vue yet, but I'm looking forward to trying it now that I've suddenly found myself with some free time!

The remote team that I have been working with most recently are all updating our resumes. A portion if the fully-remote engineering team is located in Europe while a couple of us are located in the USA.

If you or someone you know is hiring, feel free to send me an email at the address in my profile and I can put you in touch with a few fantastic remote developers who I happen to know are available and who do great work.
https://archive.md/mAhJd
OS updates on ChromeOS are seamless and mostly go unnoticed by the user, FWIW.
Or, worse, UK. Though even the UK now seems to be backing swiftly away from the UK model.
Tesla tells workers to report to factory, cites ‘conflicting’ coronavirus orders
I'm pro-nuclear myself, but going to play devil's advocate here. Chernobyl was bad, but it could have been much worse. Also, Chernobyl did actually kill people, and displaced many more. Fossil fuel plants put some stuff in the air, that according to some models do some other stuff that if you squint hard could make you believe that some bajillions of people died. But people don't actually die because there's ash in the air or mercury in tuna fish. It's models that are squeezed like lemons in search for an argument.

So, no, nuclear disasters did actually kill people and objectively more than coal power plants.
"Refined" means made better. This is better than the previous keyboard, and also features 1mm of travel, making it better in that sense than any of their previous keyboards.

Imagining a word to mean what you want it to, and then reacting negatively to that, that doesn't say as much about Apple as it does the observer.
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Has anyone practiced with PMP Exam Simulator at www.erudicat.com and did you pass?
Italy has already started doing something similar with cell-tower data for people located in Lombardy. There's this article in Italian from a few hours ago [1] with the president of the Lombardy region saying that more than 40% of the population (I guess that from the region as a whole, or only from Milano, I'm not so sure yet) had walked/moved for more than 300 meters outside their place of residence in the last 24 hours, all this information supposedly based on that cell-tower data I mentioned earlier.

[1] https://milano.repubblica.it/cronaca/2020/03/18/news/coronav...
Things will change. Isolation will give time to devise and deliver better tests, helpful drugs, better processes.

Nobody wants this to last forever. That strawman is not worth discussing.
The wysiwyg editor can be disabled on desktop, thanks to all the noise devs made after the switch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N,N-Dimethyltryptamine
Is your child getting enough sleep?
> What about contact tracing? Have you hear South Korea let confirmed cases leave the hospital with fake name + addresses? U.S. has. [1]

Not trying to defend their actions but I’d bet they were trying to avoid being put on quarentine in the hospital to later receive a hefty bill to pay.
Two weeks is barely enough for infections growth to stop (I.e. second derivative) as evidenced by Italian numbers. It’ll take months to bring total infections back down to something reasonable.
> In fact, this is a book to show why one needs analytical mechanics

I don't think the goal of the book is to obviate more advanced courses. It does well what it sets out to do, which is lay a foundation of dynamics. Contrasting it with other dynamics books I've read through, this one is self-consistent and much easier to follow the math on. Yes, the solutions are often long-winded, but that is the cost you pay for having a system. Other books like Introduction to Space Dynamics are very hand-wavey and not easy to check your work or find where you made a mistake, not to mention you must pick your coordinate systems very carefully and up front. Coordinate systems should not dictate the physics; it should be the other way around.

Besides, this methodology is applicable to other circumstances beyond just dynamics. The rigorous approach to dealing with reference frames and coordinate systems is well applied to other fields like computer graphics, regardless of whether Lagrangian is more well suited to mechanical applications.

> coordinate-free manner

Yes, I said that, not coordinate invariant, and in fact my description was deliberately as devoid of jargon as I could make it. It should be taken as plain English.

> It's not just unconventional, this book is filled with terrible examples and techniques to solve problems

Considering Dr. Rao's successful tenure working at Draper as well as working on NASA spacecraft and other military vehicles, plus running a vehicle dynamics lab, I'm inclined to believe it has value beyond what you believe it to. Though I would be interested to read your textbook when it comes out, and I do appreciate the perspective.
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Cruise ships aren't bad options either.

I hear they're a bit underutilized