skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And without businesses there are no wages to pay workers. The problem is that the match between employees and business and the match between customers and business are both very valuable and can take a long time to replace (think about built up institutional knowledge, personal relationships which are how things really get done rather than formal structures, brand trust, etc). So you only really want to break those links if the business isn't viable and there's an economic need to redeploy those resources elsewhere.
Government orders 10k ventilators from Dyson
Sleeping in Self-Driving Cars? It's No Pipe Dream
Real-time 3D viz of foot traffic in Melbourne, Australia
Looking through Panther, I think many of the cloud security tools are useful for the standard cloud engineer. Many of the features I've seen small companies build by hand - usually poorly. And if the autoremediation works as advertised, this tool would drastically simplify some common pain-points (i.e. we all know the practices to avoid, but hooking up the infrastructure to detect and fix it is a time-consuming PITA).

Even if you're too small to have an incident response team, if you work on the cloud, you need to prevent these common security issues. I can't imagine using a tool built for the purpose is more of a money pit than writing it yourself as many cloud engineers end up doing.
Intern is the new entry level.

Once a consulting company told me they'd be happier if I had 2 years of experience because then they could pitch me as a senior engineer.

Overall the title inflation and title obfuscation in this industry is starting to become an issue.
Could you please consider adding an RSS feed for the recent jobs? It's really popular for job seekers for staying updated on the various search sites. I'd love to add this site to our guide that we'll be expanding with general job seeking, not just remote: https://feeder.co/knowledge-base/rss-content/feeder-for-free...
Its a "colloquial" way of referring to a prostitute (or person acting as such) in the area of Rome. Very often spelled as sorca, but sorcia is also understood to have the same meaning.
The Apple Software Engineering Manager - Information Security position requires 10+ years industry experience. The bar for entry level positions seems quite high.
You might want to look into ninjam.
Please stop demanding dead people to be absolute saints and please cherish their good qualities.

Most of the top scientists I can name were very failed humans in other ways. If you demand absolute totalitarian compliance with modern ethical dogma you will not find many people, I'm afraid.

Feynman was also obviously socially very insecure given his double jeopardy background (blue collar parents and a jew). Rampant antisemitism was very much a thing in Feynmans day. I think this affected his obvious need to pose as the cool rebel and the alpha intellectual. But he was also ruthlessly honest. And loved physics and loved explaining things.

Please remember him for the things he loved. Not for his failures.
Here is a reason to believe that the data is biased. If you look at any county in California - you’d see a large drop on the exact date that the statewide shelter in place was ordered. This is obviously before any of the effects of isolation would manifest themselves.

The reason is likely due to larger amount of testing done due to the panic, that is not properly accounted for in their algorithm.
A lot of people say China undercounted but according to WHO report China when it was at peak infection had started counting as confirmed cases that showed lung damage using chest scans instead of doing a proper test as they needed a quick turnaround on test results. Which to me doesn't sound like they wanted to hide the number of infected. Over the years I have realised we have western propaganda and Chinese propaganda and the truth dies somewhere in between
That's not what Dunning-Kruger's thesis is.

I guess that makes your comment Dunning-Kruger about Dunning-Kruger.
I never understood how a company like Google constantly tries to build a decent chat app but never succeeds. They have so much software developers, they own the biggest ad-network worldwide and the majority of mobile phones runs their operating system with their appstore and default apps. They are the biggest email provider as well iirc.

How can you fail so miserably with building a chat app when you're in such a starting position?!
Does DYI stand for "Do Yourself In"?
Discussed 1 month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22340720
People's decisions today are so influenced by media that fake news become acceptable (like white lies).

Media has to act as the Catholic Church did in ancient times. It has to make up some stories to control people's behavior.

Toilet paper is an example of this: you talk about a shortage, and people will buy more. They don't believe it's really necessary, but since they know other people are buying and the media is talking about it, even smart people understand demand will increase and stocks will fall, so they buy more.

Same with masks: if you tell people "they work, but don't buy them" it will have the exact opposite effect.

In China and other Eastern countries, this is dealt with by causing fear in people: "if I buy a lot of masks and the state finds out, I'll be in trouble".

We don't have that tool in free Western countries. So media manipulation becomes the only effective tool for behavior control.
Poppycock! A person's art is separable from their other beliefs and actions, and Feynman was among the best both in individual contributions and communication to laymen. In any case, I'm unaware of any attitude he had about women aside from wanting to have sex with most of them.
The first time one of my articles appear in HN, I'm kinda excited
So I just opened the website and the first job posting I saw was a software engineering manager position with +10 years of experience requirement. Also there seems to be a problem with HTML entity parsing (e.g. titles include &amp; instead of &). Other than these problems, the website looks useful. Thanks for sharing.
A doctor's job is to play God. There is no neutral choice.
It's torturing the dying for short-term comfort of the living.
"It's ok to visit my parents or neighbours, because I had a mask"

"Its ok to sit next to my mate on the train because we had masks"
Thank you for your feedback! We will take a look at it and filter those jobs right now. I'm glad you find Entry Level useful :)
It's easy. The hard part is being heard.
Yes, but the Kenyans say there was no such thing.[1]

Basically the only reason we trust the Germans over the Kenyans is because of reputation, keep in mind that there is no proof for that statement, we basically take their word for it. But in Germany even recently a stash of 100000 masks was stolen from a local hospital and everyone pretends there is no supply shortage.

So I don't know whether the Kenyans are lying, but I do know that the Germans are, because of information updates I get from local health department connections. Might just be the German government trying to talk themselves out of a bad situation. But right now, we don't know either way.

"We, therefore, wish to inform the public that we are treating this report of alleged disappearance of six million type FFP2 protective masks as fake news & that our cargo section continues with normal operations."

[1] https://twitter.com/KenyaAirports/status/1242455090952384512
You’re between one to two orders of magnitude off in you estimate of the size of Apple’s web technologies team.
true, but qos is usually terrible and there is no sla to speak of on the consumer offerings.
the most common offer (vodafone cable) has frequent outtages where you only hope is to call a robo-center and the optimal outcome is a troubleticket and maybe a refund.
upload speed on gbit-cable is also only 50mbps...

if your business relies on connectity, best to avoid it.
> Email is still a way better tool for long complex asynchronous opinionated discussions.

Yup. Every time you have a product discussion in Slack, it’s like taking a $100 bill and lighting it on fire.
Coronavirus no longer dominates searches in China as epidemic subsides
Yes, that is something we are planning to do really soon. We will keep you posted!
Synthetic Voices Study: How Do You Feel About Artificial Announcer with Accent?
Any planned support for Plex? Thanks!
Thank you for catching that. Looks like it slipt through our filtering. We will fix that.
No, I get more than enough requests as it is.
My country's driving rules say that explicitly.
> Absolutely, do you have evidence they are talking and consulting with each other?

Firsthand.
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We are looking for a Haskell Developer who is excited about making an impact in Digital Healthcare. You will be part of a small remote team based in Europe and might be asked to travel every few months to meet the rest of the team. Though remote, the team will have a strong connection to the main office in Singapore. You will be working alongside other functional languages enthusiasts: we use Haskell for all our backend components (along with PostgreSQL as the backing database) and Elm for our web applications. We are currently able to offer approximately 7k EUR per month for this position.

Skills we are looking for: Haskell, PostgreSQL, team-work abilities. Good to have: Familiarity/willingness to learn to use AWS services like S3, Lambda.

At Holmusk we take pride in our diverse workforce and inclusive culture. We believe it takes all kinds of people to build the best products and bring real change to the healthcare space.
Appwrite 0.5: An Open-Source Back End Server for Web and Mobile Devs
Here’s something seldom talked about, and maybe it’s only my experience.

I was born ‘89 and in the midlands of the UK, so I missed these programmes (although my mother didn’t and even as a non-techy person could write BBC basic on a C64, which is where I got my interest).

But growing up there were quite literally no resources to learn anything about computers or programming. All courses in school were “computing” which was Microsoft excel and word courses; if you were really lucky it would be Microsoft access. They were specifically tailored for office work, not understanding computers.

As I aged, I found courses on networking (specifically Cisco) in college, however they all closed the year before I could take them.

I did manage to take a college course but I had to commute 4.5hrs a day for 2 years to take it, which was quite demanding. And I was in the last group who could ever take that course. (It closed the year after I started, I was literally the last group in). And there the only thing they taught me programming related was Visual Basic. (Although they did teach me to crimp Ethernet cables).

Does anyone else have this experience in the UK? Did I just grow up in a bad area for computer science?

(I believe shortly after I left school they did start having lessons in programming though- maybe I am part of a weirdly lost generation)
What is the drawback of crowdstrike on a personal machine? What are the alternatives?
That is true but have you seen the windows app, the one they preferred to discontinue? It was awful.
Since you mentioned about CloudRun, I had one query.

I run docker compose locally for development. For prod, I just use a different docker compose file (with some values changed, for example the postgres database url etc.). I do this from a 5 USD per month droplet/vm. I can launch multiple services like this for my microservices platform. I can use a hosted database solution for another 15 USD per month, to get backups etc. Also I get a generous 1 TB bandwidth and predictable performance for my system as a whole.

In the past I have used appengine and been bitten by their update times (took more than 20 mins for a single code update, things could have improved now). Also I need to write deployment artifacts for each service.

Now is there any benefit that cloud run (or any paas) could offer compared to this ? Would it be not easier to just stay with docker-compose and defer upgrading to kubernetes until you turn profitable or become unmanageable with a single VM ?
A small Belgian company has developed a very similar test kit. Its test is also claiming a result in 15 mins with around 60% sensivity.

The test in question has been fast tracked and approved by European regulations.

Here is their product sheet: https://www.corisbio.com/pdf/Products/SARS-COVID-19_20200324...

Here is their page: https://www.corisbio.com/Products/Human-Field/Covid-19.php

It seems to be quite similar but on this one you can see their test results and how effective it is.

Evaluation 1(n=99),95%,confidence interval:

-Sensitivity,60%,(40.7 to 76,8%)

-Sensitivity threshold,85.7%,on sampling with CT under 25(62.6 to 96.2%)

-Specificity,100%,(93.4 to 100%)

-Positive predictive value,100%,(78.1 to 100%)

-Negative predictive value,85.2%,(75.2 to 91.8%)

-Agreement,87.9%(87/99)

Evaluation 1(n=1 32),95%,confidence interval:

-Sensitivity,60.3%,(48.1 to 71.3%)

-Sensitivity threshold,76.7%,on sampling with CT under 25(61 to 87.7%)

-Specificity,98.3%,(89.7 to 99.9%)

-Positive predictive value,97.8%,(86.8 to 99.9%)

-Negative predictive value,66.7%,(55.7 to 76.2%)

-Agreement 77.3%(102/132)

It was developed by the ULB university in Brussels. It has been tested on 250 patients in two of Belgian's main university hospitals.

https://www.brusselstimes.com/all-news/belgium-all-news/1027...

This company seems to have a history of producing such tests (for Ebola, Influenza and other pathogens) and there are numerous pubmed publications about them...
Send 4 API calls to update the 4 databases.

Name the bank so we know not patronize patronize it.
Singapore Govt pumps in $48b to fight Covid-19 fallout, on top of earlier $6.4b
It's contention ratio, but I don't know the current situation. Upgrades to infrastructure where I live mean it's no longer something we think about.

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

https://www.broadbandchoices.co.uk/guides/broadband/what-is-...
Missing from that list: last Friday there was a huge hackathon in Germany that tried to create a slack project and invite around 45k people to it, which totally crashed the project.

The hackathon organizers said they were in contact with Slack's CEO or CTO (cannot remember which one), and they continued trying to add people over most of the weekend.
Certainly not thinking things are simple, or that any of your points are innacurate. I’m sure it is very tough, and maybe even the right call for the goals at that moment in 2008. My criticism was that through this lens and with the audience the OP has, the lessons of an economic downturn being basically “lay off more people” is incredibly sad from a humanistic point of view.
> people entering the workforce need internships now more than ever.

What is the noncircular reason for that?
At least in IT, Slack has become some form of censorship by reduction. People hate SCRUM meetings run by laypersons (and they mostly are), and then vent on Slack or engage in poser-discussion on private/team Slack channels when they could just talk to each other as real people. Most of them sit right across from each other.

But when the assumption is: "they wont get it anyway", why bother? Slack is better at reducing the amount it takes to create more confusion. Plan B: "dont bother".
Hopefully WFH stays.
I'm sure someone would tell you, if you subscribed to their newsletter.
"To read the story, create a free account" — no, thank you.

If you want your stories to be read, do not post them on Medium.
One can still play with CLU today,

http://www.pmg.lcs.mit.edu/CLU.html

I would already be more than happy if Go 2.0 generics would be CLU like, no need for something more fancy.
I played all the way through on an iPad. Really enjoyed it, thank you!

The only issue I had was that clicking links didn't work reliably... sometimes had to tap quite a few times for it to react, but even though often the text color would change so I know the touch hit the element. I saw the same on iPhone too.
Yeah, why would anyone with a simple system want an elegant way to declaratively describe the state of their runtime?
I'd call it "Pictures With Friends" (as opposed to Words With Friends).
GraphQL is crap. I dont want a mesh of crap.
The artist who co-authored a paper and expanded my professional network
How to Connect Office 365 Exchange Online Services to PowerShell
Measuring the Performance of JavaScript Functions – APIs and how to use them
Apple may have stepped up notarization requirements, but I never heard them be inconsistent across developers. Are you sure you submitted the same binary? Nothing different about the signing or bundle layout?
Are you aware of modern consumer sleep-tracking headbands like Dreem and Philips SmartSleep? Considering these have an EEG, I find it hard to believe they're less accurate than an acti-watch.

Dreem has a self-run study that claims pretty great results [0], do you have any objections to their methodology?

[0]: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/662734v1
Interesting to see Pascal on the list - it was the language of choice in my high school and my first programming language, back in 2010. I haven't touched it since, but I do remember it was pretty easy for me to pickup the syntax, especially compared to languages I would learn later in uni, like say C.
> obscurity is a totally valid tactic to impose additional costs on attackers

But there's the rub: you'll only impose additional costs to the least sophisticated/determined adversaries. While that works to keep random scriptkiddies/scans out, I'd argue it has little to no effect if you require serious security guarantees.
Others told about the health risks, but also consider we have 2 hemispheres :)
I was born in '88, also in the midlands, and had a very similar experience. I can't recall even encountering a computer until high school and then as you say it was just learning basic word processing and making posters in Publisher etc.

The good news is I have a younger brother born in '98 and his experience was entirely different. They were using computers all through primary school and were taught Python at high school.

It's amazing the difference just ten years can make.
Whoops... Yeah, you're right. You wouldn't expect to see instructions like bne, bge, etc. that depend on key material directly, so you wouldn't be able to rely the instruction pointer alone.

Instead, you might see instructions like addlt, so you'd also need to inspect the value before and after, which, as you correctly state, the debugger will happily let you do.
This may come as a surprise to you, but you are not the intended audience.
Amazing! I spent ages building a Counter Strike map with the Valve Hammer Editor back in 2004. I was super proud of it, but I never got to play it! My other, sillier creations ended up being played quite often at my then local Internet gaming café.

Now I'll get to explore it once again :)
I have a bunch of letters before my name that have something to do with physics and what you're asking is far to open.

If you want a general grounding have a look at Fundamentals of Physics any addition and work through some of the problems.

You will need calculus, which CS doesn't use at all.

If you want something better: http://www.goodtheorist.science/ It will take you 10 years or so.
They were in contact with the CEO. They had some problems since they wanted to send out an email to all 42k participants with an invite link. Apparently invite links for Slack are only valid for up to 2k users.

It seems like the Slack team was able to help, but they didn't disclose how exactly [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/WirvsVirusHack/status/124104522882975334...
The problem with granular simulators is that the results depend on unknowable parameters. Do you compute a robust model the accounts for the 90% confidence interval of those parameters?

The problem with Monte Carlo is the it tells me I'll die with somewhere between -$5M and $20M.
Ask HN: Searching for help/advice/mentoring resources online
My life is a mess. I am lost in regard to what I want to do, what are my abilities, and at the same time, I think I am not good enough to compete with other people in our globalized ultra-competitive job market. On top of that, I feel like my life is going nowhere.

To add insult to injury, I feel very lonely even though I have 4-5 friends with whom I talk once in a while.

I am already seeing a psychologist and a psychiatrist, having said so, they have not been able to address and help me out in questions like "I feel like even though I like a variety of fields, I at the same time have failed in every attempt I've had in studying "insert x field" since I was 16 years old".

BTW, I am a 20 year old male from Spain who dropped out of uni during my freshman year in CS after failing every single subject I had, and 3 months ago I dropped out of vocational school where I was studying Robotics & Automation. I was only to graduate from High School even though I failed 2 core subjects (biology and chemistry) because of the "mercy" of the respective teachers that taught me those subjects.

I objectively think I am a failure because of the reasons described beforehand & other causes.

Therefore, what are some help/advice/mentoring resources online both free and/or paid that could help me out in my current situation?

Thanks in advance.
This is news to me, do you have any links to k8s's support for blue-green deploys?

I've been holding off setting up a system like Spinnaker because I'd read it was coming (in the form of custom deployment strategies), but can't find anything current on the subject.
Slight tangent:
Hopefully, the next version of WebRTC standard removes the need for signaling servers and other server side infrastructure (ICE, STUN). I understand that ~35% of sessions would fail without them, but the server side needs to be a fallback, instead of a required step, during connection setup
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“... abusing over a dozen technologies...” is this a proof-of-concept or a real thing
? It just seems too horrendous to be real.

I think your comment really hits the nail on the head, IMHO the frustration shouldn’t be directed toward Apple but more toward the groups who have pushed the tracking practice so far to necessitate such draconian measures.
Yes with a twist - a couple of years older than you which meant my school was selling its then-old BBCs for a fiver when I was eight years old or so. I got started, programming on a BBC Master as a child. An amazing spec for its time, and just as educational as it was a decade earlier.
Stanford COVID-19 Evidence Service| Addressing COVID-19 Face Mask Shortages
This mirrors my experience exactly. I was really interested in computers and I wanted to learn to program so I could make games.

When I was 10 I went to the library and managed to get hold of a book on C. I took it home, studied it and then typed the programs into Notepad on Windows 95. I had no compiler and no internet. It was literally years before I actually ran a program I had written.
UNIX philosophy is a cargo cult worshiped by FOSS followers that never worked with commercial UNIX vendors, or ever bothered reading GNU man pages end to end.

From those commercial vendors, I have worked with Xenix, DG/UX, Solaris, Aix, HP-UX, Tru64.

None of them ever cared about being philosophers.
Does anyone know what PUB stands for in Flutter
We used pub package manager in Flutter. But what that actually stands for. Pub = public ?