skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this is uncharitable at all. I'm sure Kinsa has made a good effort at controlling for testing frequency, and I'm sure it's helped. But there's no reason to think the dynamics of COVID-motivated testing are the same as for flu-season, or new-buyer novelty, or anything else.

And more importantly, how could we know if it is? That's not just a Kinsa problem; we see this over and over again with peer-reviewed studies that "control for" certain factors like socioeconimics or health history. They're inherently limited to controlling for what they know about, and it's never perfect. Often, the entire effect is from an undiscovered variable. Take, say, the widely-promoted study finding that visiting a museum, opera, or concert just once a year is tied to a 14% decline in early death risk. The researchers tried to control for health and economic status, then concluded "over half the association is independent of all the factors we identified that could explain the link." [1]

Now, what seems more likely: that the unexplained half is from the profound, persistent social impact of dropping by a museum or concert once a year? Or that some of the explained factors like "civic engagement" can't be defined clearly, others are undercounted (e.g. mental health issues), and some were missed entirely?

I suspect Kinsa did much better than that, because they're not trying to control for such vague terms. But I think "even after controlling for" should basically never rule out asking "what if it's a confounder"?

[1] https://www.cnn.com/style/article/art-longevity-wellness/ind...
Of course there's less overhead, they are employing fewer people (or drastically reducing paid hours for employees). That's kind of the point of the parent article.
This is where it's very important to distinguish between financial conditions and material conditions. Feeding children and supplying respirators and masks are material conditions, dependent on the production and distribution systems.

Paying rent and mortgage, on the other hand, isn't material. If you don't pay it nothing material changes - it's not an iron law of the world in the way that hunger is, evictions are a choice. Admittedly it transfers the problem to someone else, but if the solution to maintaining everyone fed includes them then they're not going to go hungry.

Financial conditions also have a time tradeoff. Reducing retirement funds affects material conditions in the future. Or the date at which people are able to retire.

If you had a button you could press which let you retire immediately, but (with probability P) took the life of some random person in the world, would you press it? With what value of P?
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On the one hand, you are imagining that arrogant thoughts you came up with are happening in the heads of these unnamed tech leaders. (Probably not the case. My guess is they do things from a humble bottom-up “let’s learn the fundamentals and go from there” kind of approach.)

On the other hand, sometimes they do upend industries by remaking things, usually by finding and banishing some devastatingly huge false assumption the legacy players have built everything around, and exploiting the opportunity that this opens up.

So yes, uncharitable.
People last longer than corporations. The entrepreneurs on this site often create multiple corporations.
Not to go full on conspiracy theory here but a contributing factor could be that those in charge don't want wearing a mask in public to become a norm because it would interfere with facial recognition and tracking.
If you have the freshman/junior Halliday-Resnick stuff down I'd suggest jumping right in. Susskind's Theoretical Minimum (https://theoreticalminimum.com) is excellent, he has a lot of videos online. I'm using the book version (https://www.amazon.com/Theoretical-Minimum-Start-Doing-Physi...) for self study.
Born in 1970 as well - seems incredible reading the comments here about ICT and how lucky I was to born at the right time in the right place.

I was also super-lucky that my dad was the caretaker of a primary school and I was able to go in while my dad was cleaning in the evenings and use their BBC Micros.

Such happy days and pleasant memories!
Good question. I'm not personally familiar with Young + Freedman so I can't compare.
Thanks, but I'm looking for alternatives to the ElasticSearch in that diagram.

Vector looks like a good choice to fill the index, and should be easy enough to modify to support Meili.
Death is worse than unemployment. That's a sick comparison you are making.
I am the answerer as much as the requester. Either way, it is not entitled to expect helpfulness from your professional colleagues.
What about hyperinflation? And why isn't anyone bringing this up?
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Oh I see. I love the double standard of HN. When the discussion is about remote where you can have complete focus alone everyone is suddenly up in arms about constant collaboration and communication along with endless churn of in person meetings and water cooler conversations for socialization; yet when we discuss a tool which you literally put on dnd then it suddenly prevents you from working.. not the endless office chatter. Clearly people just wanna appear to work by going to the office.
Oh and to everyone who is suggesting we should use email, you clearly haven’t experienced work email spam, just ask the attorney next door and you’ll grasp it . It ain’t better than slack. At least you get to dnd with slack.
Tell us more. Another comment has a link to a news article that says this Bosch machine costs 15.000€ with cartridges costing 50-100€. The Bosch machine has a faster response (2.5hr), but lower overall throughput.

How much does the ThermoFischer sequencer cost? Is it affordable enough that every hospital just buys one and becomes a regional testing lab? How much specialized training does it need? (in every major city there are tons of biology and biology-adjacent majors who've done lab work but discovered there's no living to be made in bio so have switched to other fields).
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The matching UK system has a (huge) queue in it: https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252480546/Huge-queues-fo...
It's a valid view point that has equal weight to remote teams. In person dynamics among a team is very different from remote. Whether one way is more effective than the other is unproven, but there is definitely a huge difference and at it's worth considering what type of team dynamic you're trying to build at a company.
Perl was probably culturally influential - scripting glue - but as a language it's almost uniquely eclectic. There are influences from all over, mostly shell and AWK but also from functional languages.
Looks like llvm-libc is being written in C++. Which is... odd.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/tree/master/libc/src/st...
I love LICEcap. I would use the built in video capture from macOS, but LICEcap produces files that are much smaller.

The quality isn't as good, but most gifs I am producing are meant to be viewed in slack or iMessage where the quality is not super important.
sensational big grand claim title, with nothing to back it up. Another article into the junkbin of shitty editorials.
Well, if you go to dictionary.com, you'll find this nice one:

> a social, religious, occupational, or other group sharing common characteristics or interests and perceived or perceiving itself as distinct in some respect from the larger society within which it exists (usually preceded by the)

Which dictionary did you get yours from? What other definitions did it have?
This is the view among most Americans, reinforced by the word 'un'employed which suggests that the default condition is for someone to be employed.
Every day you don't fill a hospital bed can save countless lives. From the doctors who would have to diagnose and treat you to the people that you would infect when you don't realize you have the virus.

Sometimes being a hero is boring.
A key determiner is who invents an effective treatment and vaccine first. Many bright young minds globally are paying great attention to Covid-19. If it happens in a country, possibly US, East Asia, or Europe, then the institutions of higher learning in the country would gain immediate prestige. (Pretty sure some teams in China have set its sight on this.)

If it happens in East Asia, that would also be a recognition of their recent rapid improvement in STEM research that's not yet common knowledge, and not recognized by many general rankings.

An academic ranking with some objectivity has 5 Chinese, 1 Korean, and 1 Singaporean universities among global top 10 in biomedical engineering, for example:

http://www.shanghairanking.com/Shanghairanking-Subject-Ranki...

A shift in perception among talents may start a positive feedback loop that propels innovation in East Asia (incl. Singapore) further. Today, many graduate students in top programs in the US are from Asia.

Over the long term, quality and rate of innovations are what determine global leaders (as a sibling comment suggests).
ONT in the case of fiber. Don't know if it technically counts as a modem.
It's the exact opposite. I don't think that's stuff should be abstracted away.
"A lot of problems in mechanics can be boiled down to writing down the correct Lagrangian."

There's something that intuitively sounds very right about that...

This list seems very interesting...

I will have to explore all of these areas in greater detail... I'm not a physicist by profession, but I find most of your list's topics fascinating...
Payment definitely is needed, unless you're offering to host it for them.

I hate ads just as much as everyone else, but if that's how they are planning to pay for hosting/time, it is absolutely needed.
Not really, because most web developers only know how to do about 20% of what's on this page anyway.

Do "well" anyway.
> one political party

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According to the article:

> Q: As a community manager or leader, what happens when the mob arrives, or when someone starts to engage in discussion that could lead to more endless discussion?
> Lock, and ban your way to freedom.
Hard to say. Some of them might still be employed but with zero pay, others might have been laid off, and for others their employers just folded the business.
US may be in recession amid Covid-19 crisis, says Fed chair Jerome Powell
I wish more people realized this. I already know a few people who have lost their jobs, and several others who have had their hours reduced greatly. The government can't solve that sort of thing, especially if the economy grinds to a halt and tax revenue drops.
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On the contrary, setbacks for globalization may very well leave us better off...after all, globalization is one of the main factors why we're experiencing this deadly pandemic now, and have vast swathes of our supply chain for essential pharmaceuticals and medical equipment farmed out to evil, duplicitous regimes like the Chinese state.
Yeah analyzing securedev is part of the story but I thought there was also some network that required 10mb to analyze (as opposed to the 10-ish kb or so you get). Could be that I mixed something up there.
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> Nonsense, I have an embarrassing number of acquaintances who've admitted to wanting slaves and that they'd have them if it weren't illegal.

Wanting if you don't have something and wanting if you have something is completely different thing.

Let alone the fact that even if you have it and want it, it still might be uneconomical for you.

You may want a pony. You may even want a pony when it shits on your floor. But it will still be financially bad for you when you have to pick up the bill to feed the damn thing.

We have no slaves because renting employees is cheaper and more flexible than keeping slaved. At least on average.
> We'll still have power, water, sewage, bandwidth

Don’t forget about food. There’s a lot of complexity and people involved in getting food from a farm to your local restaurants and grocery stores.

If it gets really bad and even a fraction of people in these industries stop working, stay-at-home life might get a lot less comfortable.
nice work! it reminds me of the developer roadmap, have a look at this website; https://roadmap.sh/
Americans work sixty hours a week? Ten hour a day, rest on Sunday?
http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects Is a start.
He means low throughput and low latency, both of which are related to a concept of speed, but not the same.

> Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

— Andrew S. Tanenbaum
I have been locked in for two weeks, if I am spreading it everywhere then my house is a biological war zone. But that’s the point of self isolation, it’s to make sure you are not spreading it to others. Why would I go to get a test if I’m isolating? If I’m negative that doesn’t mean I will never get it. So why not just stay inside until hospitals are less overwhelmed (and THEN get tested on a regular basis to avoid contamination — you know what we should have been doing since day 1)

Everyone should be doing this so you wouldn’t have to assume I am spreading it everywhere.

Look at China, its working.
> I used this and debezium

This looks very cool, was not aware of it:

"Debezium is a set of distributed services that capture row-level changes in your databases so that your applications can see and respond to those changes."

https://debezium.io/documentation/faq/#what_is_debezium
No where on the site do I see how to use these tools in my development environment. Even searching the topic produces no results. A quick browse of your GitHub does not lead to any obvious entry point for developing with Observable locally. This feels like a startup has prioritized onboarding people onto their platform rather than providing examples that are representative of how D3js is actually used. I am baffled as to why these are the official code examples.
I thought it first suggests sending an email, speaking and dialoguing with education. The ban thing is against the mob or the endless discussions etc.
I know people are buying way more delivery services.
Why’s that? I see that the SP500 is rising... but why is this “good news” for businesses?
I am all for making examples of these idiots at this stage of the proceedings.
Yes. Most people don't realize this. (4G phone >> home internet)

I tether my iPad to my 4G phone because the latency/bandwidth is much higher than my home internet (40mbps).

I ran Speedtest on my phone vs my desktop with a wired connection to the router and learned that my 4G wireless connection was faster.
Yes, I have also heard that repeated ad nauseam. I think it is highly debatable and individual.

I also think a lot of people overestimate how "deep" their own work is compared to others. E.g. a lot of programming is just tedious busywork and scaffolding, yet every programmer here seems to think a slight interruption is a destructive event. Maybe the problem is with you, not others. Maybe you are not a good match for working on a team.

At many companies, plenty of programmers and engineers do complex, meaningful work in a crowded, very busy setting, with lots of talking over each other's heads.

Have you seen how SpaceX or Tesla engineers work?

What some people call deep work others do with their hands tied and constant "interruption".
I don't buy this, there must be some false positive rate in some of these sites. I've been told that I've viewed too many articles on sites I've never visited before.

It's happened at home too where I live alone and have not seen my IP address change in a very long time.
Germany ramps up coronavirus tests to 500k a week
I can definitely appreciate how distracting it is to get nagged on slack. unless it's a manager, I will usually take at least 20-30 minutes to respond. this tends to cut down on a lot of the lazy questions. people figure out that if it only takes twenty minutes to solve their problem, they may as well just do it instead of waiting the same amount of time for a response.

most questions I get are genuine coordination problems that need to be resolved. "hey, I see you have x file checked out. I also need to make some changes. should I wait for you to submit or will it merge cleanly?" answering this kind of stuff promptly saves everyone a lot of headache in the long run.

there are also questions about code that you are much more familiar with than the other person. it might cost you an hour to get back into "deep work" mode, but you save that person a day or more of floundering around and possibly messing things up (that you will have to fix later).

I'm not making any assumptions about you personally, but I find that many people who complain a lot about distractions really just don't like working with other people. this is fine, but it means you should probably be in a role where other people depend less on your knowledge and/or using your interfaces.
Do you have a link to the piece in the collection? I'd love to see it.
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I don't think it did. Those of us who bothered to spend more than a glancing look at prototypes figured them out pretty easily. Including Classes in JavaScript feel like pandering: there really wasn't much to directly gain from them, but they threw them in there anyways because the TC knew it'd gain JavaScript some popularity.
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For the love of God, don't use Feynman lectures to learn physics. That's something you read after you know physics, for relaxation and conceptual stuff. Resnick & Halliday is a much better freshman/sophomore book.

Susskind's "theoretical minimum" is actually pretty good.

http://theoreticalminimum.com/courses

Fowler gives a pretty conventional undergraduate physics curriculum (adding Feynman in there somehow). If it were me: learn the math tools first. I assume you know linear algebra; learn differential equations. From there, go straight to higher level books. There's very little difference in undergraduate vs graduate quantum mechanics and E&M other than the math is slightly more sophisticated in grad school. Might as well do it right. Messiah for QM and Jackson for E&M. Classical mechanics, the tradition is to learn Lagrangian mechanics in high level undergrad and Hamiltonian in grad school. There's no real reason to do it in this order, and a decent reason (understanding Quantum) to do it in reverse order. Amusingly, the math is cleaner in Hamiltonian mechanics, but you may find yourself unable to do some simple problems you can do with Newtonian physics; so this will be a weird working backward thing. Stat Mech, I think you should just read Reif; skip Ma or whatever they use in grad school now.

FWIIW I know/knew people who did this: started grad school without having done any undergrad courses in physics. I think skipping a lot of the introductory stuff, and visiting it later is actually better.

The rest of it can be done with the same machinery you learned in QM, E&M, Mechanics and Stat Mech. Max leverage if you had to pick one: probably classical mechanics for a DL guy, E&M for general knowledge of tools.

I'd suggest not actually trying to simulate physical systems on a computer: you probably stare at computers too much anyway.
Our teachers certainly did (comprehensive school from 1981). I guess because the subject was computer studies (think it was 'studies' rather than 'science') and the curriculum was about programming and how they worked, I guess they had to hire people who knew their onions.
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I think loathing the unemployed (especially if it isn't caused by health conditions and isn't temporary, like in this case) is commonplace in any society. There are many studies which show unemployed people are more likely to commit crimes. e.g. [1]

Unemployed people, by definition, are net consumers. [2] Unless society as a whole actually produces wealth, there is nothing to tax, and the government doesn't have any money to spend. And how does wealth get created without people in employment? Unless you are the country with the reserve currency, which effectively gives you the ability to keep printing money until the world catches up to the con. Which doesn't still change the underlying economics, it is just that at any given point in time there is always some country which will be using the reserve currency status to make it appear like you can create wealth by printing more money.

Aiming for more employment is a net positive to any society, and I think that is what conditions people to loathe the permanently unemployed.

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/40057352?seq=1

[2] I remember reading an essay by PG about how getting employment is when you go from being a "net consumer" to become a "net producer", cannot find the link.
DESKTOP ONLY: not ready for mobile devices yet.
I used to use LICEcap, but for some reason it was failing me (I don’t remember what). I went on a journey (through 10 Mac gif makers) to find the “best” gif maker and I settled on GIF Brewery[1] and I’ve never looked back.

[1] - https://gfycat.com/gifbrewery
I’m not sure about the rental license, but copyright law says this:

To perform or display a work “publicly” means—

(1) to perform or display it at a place open to the public or at any place where a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a family and its social acquaintances is gathered; or

(2) to transmit or otherwise communicate a performance or display of the work to a place specified by clause (1) or to the public, by means of any device or process, whether the members of the public capable of receiving the performance or display receive it in the same place or in separate places and at the same time or at different times.

https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html

LegalZoom writes:

Most movies are intended for personal, private viewing only. If you're watching a movie in a group with your family and friends in your home, there is no issue under copyright law. Similarly, if you rent out a space for a private party and screen a movie for family and friends, and the party is exclusive to your guests and closed to the general public, there will not be a copyright law violation. However, if your event was open to members of the public outside your small group, the movie showing might be considered a “public performance."

If the showing is considered public, you are restricted by copyright law. Typically, you can't legally show a movie to the public unless you obtain public performance license from the copyright owner. You can obtain a public performance license by either contacting the copyright holder directly or by licensing from entities set up specifically for the purposes of licensing movies, such as Swank Motion Pictures or the Motion Picture Licensing Corporation.

https://info.legalzoom.com/article/copyright-laws-related-us...
Great, then you're enforcing rules on one group and not the rest. They're not necessarily even the problem group. Bullies and snowflakes are often the adults. And why 18? Why not 16? or 21? Are you going to make people prove their ages in order to take part? If not, you're going to just get people lying so they can either be protected by the CoC, or lying so they can go around being an asshat. Are you allowed to be an asshat to the people under 18? If not, then you've just created a CoC.

There are just too many issues with having a CoC for kids and not everyone else. It doesn't solve anything and makes it even harder to figure out interactions. You're better off with a simple CoC for everyone, or none at all, but don't pretend that you're community is adults only so you can justify allowing people to be crap to each other.
Company owner can always ditch burnt out workers which is efficient for the company. I'm assuming it's not that easy in workers collective?
Papers of record/highly reputable sources should be held to a different standard.
In related news on Queue-it: https://tech.eu/brief/queue-it-funding/