skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know much in the way of details but there's this quote from the article implying the get meals:

> “Would help ease the cost of not having hot food and snacks at work five days a week also.”

There's also this article (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-13/facebook-...) which implies the minimum wage for their contractors is $18/hr in low cost areas and $22/hr in high cost areas.
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Facebook is a customer of sub-contracters. Facebook is not their employer. It makes sense that the subcontractors' boss take care of them, not Facebook. Not that strange.
Just like many others under the same order. What's the news?
I also sometimes work in film production. We use the status 'good enough'
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I'd rather argue that "min" only makes sense for numbers and not for other objects.
What do they mean by a contractor? Do they mean Software Engineering contractors or do they mean zero hour contractors which are typically not paid particularly well.

I am a .NET contractor/consultant at a similarly large corporation (just finishing a contract now). I wouldn't expect a penny from the corporation. It just how it goes.
I believe that if a government mandates a shutdown of businesses, said government should pay for it. The employees directly that is, not the businesses.

Also, businesses should have enough savings to keep paying for all of their employees in a crisis like this.

The employees in turn have to remember they have the power. If they decide to just not return unless they get paid and their already scarce vacation days back, the company is screwed.
Are other car factories forced to shut down as well?
I see a common fantasy among developers; they want to apply their sophisticated intellect and technical knowledge towards exploiting financial markets. So, my argument is that if this is what one is up to, one is not going to find many valuable ideas spelled out and spoon fed in a book.
No, min makes sense for any set with a total order. Sometimes partial order too.
Why can I read this article when I click on the result via Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=Aggressive+testing+helps+Ita... ?
I cannot read it, when I click on the direct link.
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Yes: https://www.ft.com/content/dd76d42a-678b-11ea-a3c9-1fe6fedcc... Getting new shiny car will be a problem soon.
Is there anything that prevents contractors from getting FT positions?

That would be inequity

FB pays its engineers more than other companies around the world. Is that inequity?
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I would suggest to get another Thinkpad as other brands may not not be tweaked to Thinkpad loyal customers. For me, I always find my Thinkpad is quiet and cool during heavy workload.

As for Ryzen, I just bought their budget laptop, E485 (with Ryzen 2200u+SSD+FHD screen) last year. I was waiting patiently for Thinkpad deal to come, it was worth to wait, as my aging SL410 was still working. It has been matching my expectation so far: affordable, snappy enough, and good battery.

As for Thinkpad models, I find that their budget ones are sufficient for my startup and personal usage, as I do not use enterprise-level features, like those in T series (that I used during my corporate lives).
It is a bad idea anyway.
The revenue will be missing anyway, if not now then later when they are trying to re-bounce but most of their guest come to eat for 'free' (well, already paid, but not for the food).

If one genuinely interested in saving a restaurant should invest or better, donate.
Also pinephone. https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/

Unfortunately the GNSS (GPS) is on one chip with modem, but otherwise great feature to have killswitches for cameras and comms.

https://wiki.pine64.org/images/8/89/PinePhone_switches.jpeg
Yes, but who would pay these companies just to stay in business? If China can produce these things for half the price (even after shipping), people will buy from them instead. That's how the free market works.

I mean you could mandate that certain essential products can only be made locally / cannot be imported from abroad, but who is going to pay for it? That would require a political revolution, and despite everything that's happened over the past years, that just isn't going to happen in the US just yet.

Besides, it'd make the US more communist, where the government controls the market and production and where people work.
Thanks. One does wonder why they have tens of thousands of content moderators, none of whom are actual employees.
Why in Windows is the system drive C
The min() function doesn't know the type. The minimum possible value for a list of strings is "", for example.

To get what you want, use min(lst, default=-math.inf) .
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Is anyone out buying cars at the moment?

Is anyone selling them even if they are?
Yeah, that's called "plausible deniability."
I agree with your sentiment if “wasting life” is taken to mean long lasting negative impact and loss of momentum in people’s lives. This is happening already, to my friends.
It's because people have been pushed to both sides of that; manufacturing used to be a comfortable middle class job, but it's shifted to the sides, being a high value, specialist job on the one hand, and a low education required job of handling incoming finished or half-finished products coming over from abroad.
Index funds defer to corporate management
If an "inequity" is such that we are complaining about a step which makes some people better off but no one worse off, I will always claim it's stupid to complain about. Again, they are getting their full wages whether they are working or not. Their lives are no worse off as a consequence of Facebook's actions (many are better since they won't be working, WFH and/or avoiding COVID) but you're upset that Facebook did make some other people's lives better. I can't understand why I would get behind this. Seriously, if FB had just not given one set of workers a little bet extra, then no one would be whining at all and workers as a whole would be relatively worse off as compared to what did happen. It makes no sense to me.
I have to say this: I am the architect of Pharo (bah, the guy who has the responsibility of putting the pieces together and handle the releases). While I cannot do anything about it, I do not feel comfortable (and I know a lot if not all the members of the "core team" either) with this kind of "evangelisation". We love our little environment, and we certainly believe it has merits enough to be considered a player in the language ecosystem. We do our language with passion and conviction, but also with respect for other languages and programmers.

While the author has the right to do as he thinks is the best, please consider this is not how the team developing Pharo thinks and act.
Do you have some link to documentation explaining how to setup/debug this kind of things? I tried to deploy Jitsi Meet on a EC2 instance with all access permitted, but it still had quite a few problems. Did not try to tinker with STUN, though.
Wait, it's a double pay. Here are saner options for "gov pays":

1. Gov pays employees for missed days, biz closes for unpaid vacations.

2. Gov pays biz for missed revenue, biz extends paid vacations.

Also don't forget that gov does not even earn/save money, so "gov pays" is an instant failure in a rational discussion.
Or it's just a correction; especially in the US, the eating out culture is ridiculous, and the staff are massively underpaid and taken advantage of (zero-hour contracts, low wages, dependence on tips which in practice means they're expected to do a lot of additional emotional labor, flirting, etc).

This money is not lost from the economy; people still have to eat after all.
true, but is it working in Italy or any other place that isn't China?
That sounds rather like the traffic feature of Google/Apple Maps than what's discussed in the comments here. The article you linked is very clear that it's aggregated and only segments with at least 20 people on them are reported.

If I understand the Hill article correctly, the US discussion is about the same kind of data ('An unnamed OSTP official told The Washington Post that they were “encouraged by American technology companies looking to leverage, aggregate, anonymized data to glean key insights for COVID-19 modeling efforts.”'), yet the majority of the comments seem to be assuming that it's about tracking individuals' locations to enable contact tracing. I don't get that impression from the Hill article at all.

What's actually being proposed, while not unproblematic, sounds rather more palatable than the authoritarian nightmare that's being discussed here.
I guess you are right.

Of course, the Python function named 'min' could very well implement an infimum in this case, and it would be OK.

In general, there's some conventions, like using the words 'minimum' vs 'infimum'. Or stressing the property 'result of min should be an element of the input set' vs 'min on lists should behave like repeated application of min on two arguments starting with the neutral element'.

The right choice depends on context. In lots of programming context, I find stressing the connection with the minimum monoid was useful.
Qualitatively, one is reminded of dead-beat controllers[1].

As a theoretical matter, "all unicorns are blue" is like a transfer function for a controller that can move an elevator from the bottom of the Empire State Building to the top in 0.01 seconds. Connecting words is like solving a math problem.

Trying to locate that unicorn, or bringing that controller out of state space and into reality, one quickly realizes the non-existence of unicorns and that the energy applied to that elevator in order to meet the time requirement would vaporize the equipment.

Requirements and metadata need not meet the realities that apply to data.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead-beat_control
> But that doesn't tell you _why_ that choice is a good idea!

That wasn't necessarily a choice, it may have just been an oversight not to deal with the "empty list" case.

The fact that this blog post exists is a testament to this behavior being surprising.

I don't think any of the arguments - philosophical or otherwise - are very good from a practical standpoint, that is: is this behavior is not more likely to cause harm?

My gut feeling says that this behavior is somewhat unsafe, but then again Python is probably not the language to use when safety is a big concern.

A hypothetical safer language might be better off to define "all/any" only for non-empty list.
I think the very same is happening in scheme.
Scheme's functions naturally works on lists: +, * , and, or.
Applying it on empty lists gives us:

> (and)
#t
> (or)
#f
> (+)
0

And most surprising (although it's very convenient on second thought):

> (* )
1

Thus multiplication on empty list gives 1.
I'm going to suggest it's pretty bad form to call this "Fast.ai Camera App" when it's not a Fast.ai product.
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"Even Musk is affected" I guess?
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Looking at it now, my comment is slightly ambiguous. I mean that I would also love for the designs to get leaked, and I thought Johnny555's comment was great
€10k for a part that can be 3D printed for €1 isn't insane?
Another interesting open source software is Jami https://jami.net/

I'm using it and I'm quite happy with it.
Philosophy of science is an easy subject and a person of reasonable intelligence could grasp the principles without any difficulty.

The current contest is not of experimentally verified facts, but of fancy abstract models. For funding and the high social status of an abstract "researcher".

The vastly complex and expensive devices for "experiments" are made according to the current model - a layer upon layers of socially constructed abstractions. This is no different from theology.

You could also read about positivism and acceptance of the limits of what could be known (not accepted or believed).
Interesting point. You got me thinking and opened a wormcan in my mind. I guess True and False are in the set of Booleans, but infinities are, very strongly arguably, not in the domain of numbers. But still, but still.
Monoid morphism.
Typically you would use "least" and "greatest" (for a partial order) or "first" and "last" (for a total order). It sounds very strange to talk about "min" and "max" for strings, for example. Do you call the first word on a dictionary the minimal word?

But then again, what can you expect from a language that uses "+", the quintessential notation for commutative operations, for the (very non-commutative) operation of concatenation?

Doubly sad when you realize that the language was designed by an actual mathematician.
Also worth looking into using ALB instead of API Gateway, and have ALB call Lambda (I think this is possible).
> Each household is supplied with a decent-quality thermometer, BP cuff, and camera-enabled ear/eye/throat scope.

I think you’re overestimating the capabilities of most people to follow instructions.

... video conferencing doesn’t work at the best of times with IT worker meetings. Good luck with the general populace
And my Explore feed is pretty much just pictures of cute bunnies as that's based on the content I interact with (who doesn't love cute pictures of bunnies?!). I'd say that's very much not the same thing - algorithmic interpretation of what I like, vs a moderator deciding to only promote certain things.
All unicorns are blue, indeed.

The surprising thing is that all unicorns are red, too.
I have to admit, my reaction is...so what?

Social media is a playground for beautiful, glamorous people, because those are the personalities most people want to see. It’s true for YouTube and Instagram. If you’re a relative newcomer to the market like TikTok and your promoted content is filled with ugly people, users will notice that and assume your service is second rate.
One way to see the difference is to consider a loop on the sphere or torus. On a sphere, any loop can always be drawn tighter until it is a point. On a torus, there will be some loops that cannot be drawn tight, as they go 'through the hole'.
Another way is to imagine the sphere and the torus are hairy. You can comb a torus such that all hairs lie in more or less the same direction as their neighbours - if you try this with a sphere, there will be at least one point where the hairs completely diverge.
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Never said it did, but it's all about probabilities.
Yes, it's very similar to Mad Men in that respect.
For green-field projects (new projects/apps), you always had bug #1: "[Insert project codename] doesn't work. Severity: 1. Priority: 1."

Always interesting to read some of the bug reports; some of which could meander off-topic in interesting ways.
Great insights. Thanks for your work!
I maintain that copying is fine in some or a lot of cases because stale data has a diminishing ROi and eventually becomes useless. Doesn’t mean the govt couldn’t amass data from multiple sources to provide a complete picture of you. But you just proposed DRM for your personal data and we all know about the analog loophole...
>The employees in turn have to remember they have the power.

not really. They aren't software engineers in high demand. An acquaintance works 2 jobs - he've got a family - one job is at Tesla, and now both of these jobs are off. There is some deep unjustice that the cost of all these lockdowns/etc. is paid by the most disadvantaged members of society while Mnuchin (who has a well established track of record of exploiting for personal gain the tough fate regular people fell into during a 2008 crisis) is going to get a $1T to use at his will.
Integers have an (intrinsic & natural) total order. Do characters? I'd say no. We represent them as integers, then expose those underlying integers because it's extremely useful for efficiency purposes, but I'd pretty strongly argue that that's an optimisation only and not an intrinsic to the alphabet.

'a' < 'b' only by accident of history. It could just as easily have been the reverse.
There are many different "domains" of numbers, and many of them contain infinities. For example, the affinely extended real line, or the IEEE754 floats, are two widely used domains of numbers that contain +inf and -inf.
Mostly agreed about the vernacular. Though a minor nitpick: mathematics has been around for longer than English.

As for eg Python: when in doubt, going with the mathematical usage of the term is the Right Choice here.

For another interesting example: the negation of must and may in English vs their German equivalents.

In English 'You must not do X.' means that refraining from X is obligatory. In German the equivalent 'Du musst nicht X-en.' means that engaging in X is not obligatory.

Both usages make sense in their respective languages. And both usages have translations into formal logic. Just different ones.
I believe that’s likely acting as a reduction with an initial value. When you sum you start with 0 and when you multiply you start with 1. These provide identity functions for the first addition and multiplication.

1 * x = x

0 + x = x
> Maybe the justification is that you do not know the type of an empty python list.

Excellent point, thanks!
Have people in here actually downloaded TikTok and browsed through it? It's actually pretty amazing how beautiful their creators are. It's gonna be a legitimate unique value proposition for them as a social network
Poking around Google Patents, looks like lots of viruses, including human coronaviruses, are patented. I wonder if the patents are as useless to virologists as software patents are to us software developers...
Apparently the company have already threatened them https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/17/21184308/coronavirus-ital...
And there's no evidence that Russia tipped Britain over that edge.

Britain's relation to the continent is something that people in Britain have a long history of having strong opinions about. It's utterly implausible that Russia could effect a 1% shift in public opinion on such a vital subject.

There was an intense, years-long debate inside Britain about EU membership. Trying to blame Russia for that is just ridiculous. It's a demonization tactic used by people who are upset about their countrymen's opinions.
I would trust the CCC or the EFF with this I think, and the other paranoid fighters for privacy. But only as long as it takes for the to rotate their members enough for takeover by others.

We've seen that wit smaller political parties as well. When membership suddenly become a viable path to power things change in the structure and people.
>You might be right that there could be large numbers of people with the virus who are doing just fine right now, but we know from nearly 200,000 cases (that's plenty) that a non-trivial portion of cases require hospitalization. That's the whole problem, right there.

You're not applying the logic all the way through.

If a great number of people are already infected and do not require hospitalization it grossly affects the math on the potential for overwhelming our medical system.

Those infected people unnoticeable to minor symptoms have the potential to be the herd immunity we'd want from a vaccine.

> All that is to say that the situation can only be worse than we already know. I'm not sure more data would lead us to isolate less at all.

More infected people who are unnoticed because they don't show severe symptoms and require hospitalization actually makes the situation better. It would lower the hospitalization rate and alter the projections drastically in the direction of less epidemic.

We are being cautious right now. That, by definition, means we're likely overreacting.
I spent February driving around Scotland taking pictures of a bunch of castle ruins. It's great fun to walk around a pile of aging stones and wonder what the heck used to go on in there.
Haskell, the prototypical careful language, defines their equivalents for 'any' and 'all' exactly like Python does it. And that's not an accident.

> That wasn't necessarily a choice, it may have just been an oversight not to deal with the "empty list" case.

If your general code gives you a answer for a corner case, it's a good hint that this might be a reasonable answer. Not a guarantee, though.
Those infinities are conceptual only. They don't exist. If infinity was part of the integer domain then

(infinity + 1) > infinity

which it isn't. I know about IEEE infs and nans, and neither are numbers, just useful conventions.
And 5.4 is a LTS kernel. They were just in time apparently.
I'd like to see them try. To sell this kind of critical equipment to Italian hospitals you have to guarantee there will be no shortages even (especially) in critical conditions. They failed to uphold their part of the bargain with the country and at this moment both the government and the people are very short on patience. Probably, if they even try to sue the volunteers they are going to lose all their contracts with Italian hospitals in a matter of days.
Raspberry Pi is available in a "compute module" format which uses a standard SODIMM pin package... They sell quite a lot of them to commercial clients for use in manufacturing. Close to half of all Pi are used commercially, by some accounts. Stable form-factor, excellent documentation and ability to order new stock of specific models for several years after release make it very popular.
I might sound biased because I had lots of difficulties with CircleCI that I'm not having with Actions anymore. That's why I think it's a better product for my own use case.
Interesting. Zithromax is an antibacterial, not an antiviral.
Looks like they wish to follow in the footsteps of South Korea:

https://www.lawfareblog.com/lessons-america-how-south-korean...
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It's also funny that people are ready to downvote anything they do not agree with. Let me explain to you how it works - the downvote button is a tool that should serve to mark comments that are unnecessarily inflamatory or provide no value on their own. This is not a toy for you to remove opinions that you do not agree with. For this unique situation in which the whole world somehow does not agree with you, please use the hidden "reply" functionality. I know it's hard to imagine that something that you FEEL is wrong might be true, but it's just such a cruel cruel world that we live in.
This article helped me to understand a great talk by Lawrence Krauss which then became the book A Universe from Nothing.
Yahoo's email client is one of the best in terms of usability.

The story there is that Marissa Mayer wanted employees to use it internally, so it got heavily dogfooded and improved. (Yahoo employees were using Google docs and sheets for company use like password lists. lol.)

It's worked as your described above for a few years, but they claim to have made speed improvements recently (as it was unusable on low-end devices like netbooks.)

The problem with Yahoo Mail is that Mayer allowed a FISA order to install a kernel-level sniffing module on email servers, and I never heard if that was removed (interpret that as a no.) In addition, their network was pwned multiple times, so there's that too.

https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/08/reuters-yahoo-email-scan...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/16/yahoo_forged_cookie...

Source: ex-Yahoo, offered role as technical lead of Mail.