skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah but it’s a press release. What I’m telling you is if you walk to this site today, they’re still working on it and far from being done.
Let’s make testing Agile, they said. Uh, what did they mean by that?
Would have to sack 80% of congress first.
Here's an interesting idea, although it may be far fetched. Given the original, if a thief could produce a high quality counterfeit in van gough's style, they could possibly use parchment/ink from the true original in creating it. Then they'd have a "lost van gough" which could pass some basic age analysis. This lost painting would be worth more than the original, and they could sell it on the real art market, not a black market.

Or this may just a crappy movie plot. I don't know much about art.
It does seem that way. Maybe not screenshots, but very often screen monitoring. And network MitM and logging, of course.

However, many firms provide WiFi APs for visitors and consultants, and employees can use them for their personal devices. So there's no need for anything personal to touch a business device.
You call it screenshots I call it vnc/rdp etc. see the rest of the discussion for how companies get away with it.
This is what makes discussions on this subject infuriating. Most people only have access to the absolute death numbers, and yet try to draw conclusions from them.

If it is the case, as you say, that a significant fraction of young people need to go into intensive care to have a chance to recover, that makes this pandemic much worse than most people think.

I do know that the number of hospitalizations is high (and possibly should be higher still, if hospitals were not turning away patients)
When both parents work, it’s going to take a toll on productivity. One of the other or both parents will have to deal with all kinds of issues with small children up to maybe tweens. But even then unless they had home office setups there will be competition for space and resources —kids could be hogging the b/w and if you throttle it, whoever gets throttled is going to be unhappy with their telework or distance learning.
OneWeb Goes Bankrupt
You Need to Know About Git Worktree
A Show HN of the project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22625836
Five Years of Raspberry Pi Clusters
> Most employees aren’t accustomed to holding meetings with colleagues via videoconference and some have found it difficult to use Apple’s own offerings such as FaceTime, iCloud and iMessage, as they weren’t designed for enterprise users, according to current and former employees.

Hopefully this motivates them to make these products better! Although I'm not super hopeful.

I once asked a friend (and Apple employee) why Keynote doesn't have any collaboration function. I said, "Don't you guys every collaborate on presentations?" He said, "No, not really, and if you do, you're all in one room and one person is driving the computer".

So their culture is very much engrained with in person collaboration.

Edit: I should clarify that I asked him this a few years ago, before they added the "collaborate through iCloud" functionality.

The point still stands though, that while everyone else had collaboration in their presentation apps, Apple didn't, because they didn't see the need for it.
So something like real socialism but this time actually working?
This has the full link:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.4504

Unit commitment is the MIP problem that combines linear and integer constraints and tries to determine the least cost set of units to bring online for each hour of the day. Constraints include things like the minimum amount of time the unit has to remain offline before being started up again, the minimum amount of time it has to run once online, how fast it can move (ramp), how much capacity it has..etc. You try to minimize the costs of starting up the unit, the cost of the unit just being online, and energy costs. The economic dispatch problem is much simpler and asks, with the set of units that were given to me by unit commitment, where should I set each one. The commitment problem runs the day ahead at hourly granularity for the next day and is also run periodically throughout the day. The dispatch problem generally runs every 5 minutes 24/7 365. There are also other constraints like not burning down the transmission grid.
This is a great read from the New Yorker about a serial art thief, which gives a bit of insight into the psychology of it all: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/14/the-french-bur...
Jobs for the formerly incarcerate–now more than ever
Millions of people have recently lost their jobs and it's only just begun. A company will lay off its newest employees, its contingent workforce or large swathes of its blue collar workforce first. We're seeing this first-hand. We help people with criminal records find jobs, and we've have wholesale layoffs of people we've placed through our staffing business.

For them, a job isn't merely a means for providing a roof over their families' heads or putting food on the table. Unemployment correlates directly with recidivism. If our people don't have a job, they will almost certainly be rearrested, thereby perpetuating the insidious cycle that destroys lives, families and communities. Every day they're on the street without a job, they're at risk.

The irony is that these folks actually are wonderful employees (per recent SHRM study). They're "as good as if not better" than people without records, and their retention is better, because having fewer options, they reward their employers with a great work ethic that inspires the rest of the workforce. These people are, truly, heroic.

So if you can use people to work in your factories or warehouses, in your food service or deliveries, in maintenance or call centers, I've got 11 million + incredible people nationwide I'd like you to meet. We screen each candidate to ensure they conform to your internal hiring parameters.

And we'll work cheap, just so we can break even. My team and I can't bear the thought of these people working so hard to build a new, productive life after what they've been through, only to see things go to hell for a situation completely out of their control.

And if you are connected to large employers who are hiring, I'd very much appreciate that introduction. I promise you that you'll love the feeling of helping people who desperately need your help right now. Thanks for reading.
I have a sneaking suspicion that it actually works in Amazon's favour for the employees to leave their previous employers. It means Amazon can pick the top performers, retain them after the emergency, cut the low performers once the emergency is over and in the mean time it completely screws up their competitors' work force management.
Tired of Jira? Here's a pure Posix to-do environment (versioned and
How to combine online and offline marketing channels INTP a single flow
Also the University of Minnesota Losartan trial: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04312009

Probably don't have to look far to find another dozen or so.
My past office was just like that. 10-20 people per room, but usually less than that because people worked from home. Sometimes more than one team per room, because there where smaller teams. My room had 3 teams but we worked in a similar area, so we could bounce ideas with other team members.

It's not a good middle, it's the best possible way to work.
Absence of a result is still a result, it's just not publishable. There are very few journals that will take a paper that boils down to "we tried some things to solve this problem, and they didn't work, and not even in an interesting way".

Sometimes scientific progress goes "boink". Consequentialism is dangerous. Researchers, like everyone, need to be able to fail.
Show HN: An algorithm to model two-headed Flatworms
Why not OpenVPN?
Normally I would agree. Shift the employment to people currently making zero. Unemployment is very generous right now the current delivery workers will be just fine.

However, the optics of a mass layoff and replacement would be very damaging to Instacart. Probably not worth it for them, since other than the cost of PPE the rest of the cost is shifted onto the customer not Instacart.

I predict they will give into demands, but because of the extraordinary circumstances it will not be a landmark case.
The iPad is a postmodern device - it's about the device itself and the process of doing things on it rather than a productive means to an end. The iPad is the end itself.
“Unfathomable”? Why would you expect your uninformed amateur speculation (“intuition”) to be more plausible than the best modeling and experimental observation of generations of the world’s foremost experts?
Owner and servicer are different companies.

Servicer does not own the loan, they simply paid an upfront cost to have the right to collect payments from homeowners (from which they take a cut). So the owner can sell their MBS to Fed to reduce uncertainty on their balance sheet, but servicer is just stuck servicing the loan — they already paid the upfront cost for the right to service the loan. That’s why they hedge by shorting MBS.
I always get a kick out of how modern design has decided to finally coalesced on a hybrid of Watercolor XP and Encarta 2000. Microsoft could have just stick with that and saved 2 decades of redesigns, but then XP/OSX came out with everything covered in shiny plastic. Oh Luna/Aqua how you set us back. The lost decades.

http://www.intelliadmin.com/index.php/2007/04/forgotten-wind...

http://www.shoplack.com/detail.aspx?id=1305
Mind, for a VC. A VC needs at least 100x on their investment. You don't realistically get that unless you invest very very early or you exit to a strategic acquirer, and most acquisitions aren't by strategic acquirers.

That stake was likely worth hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars, but to KPCB it wasn't worth the hassle to find someone willing to pay that. They know they make a loss on most of their investments.
> China's neighbors - all the countries with experiencing managing responses to movements in China, particularly SARS, acted appropriately.

Yes, because they all knew the official narrative from China could not be trusted. They ignored the words and looked at the actions.

I suspect our intelligence folk knew as well.

The emotional response we are seeing all over the country is because the average person feels like an idiot for listening to China and to the experts at the WHO.
> If a computer can simply

I believe that the term "simple" is being applied incorrectly here.
Novartis CEO says Malaria drug is biggest hope against coronavirus
Interesting. I had assumed that security was reduced.
Tips on leading remote teams from a manager of 100 people in 20 countries
PrivacyTools Delists “The Great Cloudwall”
>I have no idea where he’s finding film so cheap - I stopped when it was costing me £5 per exposure.

Ilford is £1.50 a shot + chemicals. Rodinal is pretty cheap and if you're printing then the fixer cost is negligible.
Posiopaths: Positive only attitude can be toxic
Why do you want this, though? File syncing is a largely solved problem, and the difference between a "laptop-shaped thing that you can dock your phone with" and "a fully functional laptop" is like $20-$40, at least to be on par with the speed of a phone powering a laptop shell? Why not just spend a little extra and have a full computer?
I had to smile a bit when reading about the technical problems they were facing with working from home, especially the software stack. This is something, that Apple has the power to address. I am using Webex myself on the Mac. With the last big update, it has become much better, but there is certainly room for improvement. The performance with video conferencing doesn't seem to be great though.

By investing into the relevant software features required for working from home, Apple could not only solve their own problems but also make the platform more attractive for business users outside of Apple. Great screensharing, with voice and video would be a start. Perhaps a native Webex client. Or, make their own client work with Webex.

P.S.: maybe they also should consider offering a new iSight. A physically separate webcam that improves the video conferencing experience. If it is separate, it can be moved to show documents or other things people are working on, like their hardware prototype. It could also offer improved quality in comparison to the builtin cameras.
> houses built in factories (like cars) and delivered to the site by helicopter. You could roll out a whole neighborhood in a week or two.

I'm currently writing a series on designing my own home and contrasting it with some soul-crushing new construction around here. It's very obvious that the places cherished and loved in New Hampshire were the villages built slowly, and the places least loved are the ones flash formed overnight by contractors trying to max out $$. Building on site is not very expensive but I'm not sure that making it cheaper is fixing any of the major problems with housing. It would just give more life to planning for lifeless sprawl.

If anything, we need ways to build more beautiful houses better or cheaper, in smaller, odd and non-level lots. Not assembly line houses.
Yeah, that's tricky; people tend to adjust to things and they become the 'status quo'. I guess it's partially a matter of electing better politicians down the line.
I'm always skeptical of arguments that go along the lines of "It would be so easy, if only we did the right thing".

The truth tends to be that:

* It wouldn't be so easy, even if we did the right thing.

* Doing the right thing is actually the hard part.

* What you think is the right thing isn't actually the right thing.

Most systems in place today are there for a reason. Organizations that do the wrong thing tend not to survive for a very long time.
An Integration Loop
I dont understand how this is also not purely the market as well. Are they not simply just removing their labor voluntarily? Their coordination is no different than the coordination of any large corporation that involves thousands of independent minds.
The main reason I feel this way is more about environment and wide learning and cross pollination.

I self studied for a long time, topical, learned online mostly. You can do this, and can be very successful.

The point of academic environments is much like that of an office over remote work. One of the pros is the cross pollination of ideas across expertise barriers. This is where innovation happens, faster and more frequently.
Because China has been selling fakes: https://www.businessinsider.com/coroanvirus-holland-recalls-...
I wasn't aware of that, but no I don't think it has anything to do with developers getting paged.

I have worked on these older systems that exist in government offices and I have done work to integrate new systems to them over the years. So much of the VA, SSA, IRS and a ton of other federal, state and local government systems are focused around batch processing that they literally need that maintenance window to update systems, synchronize datasets and do data imports/exports etc. I saw just about 5ish years ago a system that still required 4 hours nightly just to manage the backup and recovery, then another 2 to ingest data from other agencies so that the agents had data to work off the next day. And it wasn't rare that you had to wait 2-3 days for your transaction to process through the system to get included in the update. Newer developers take for granted all the technology and systems we have today and I think sometimes feel it has always been that way, it hasn't. When I started doing work in the early 90's offline backup windows were still normal, batch updates required databases to be offline routinely etc. Yes, Oracle existed and was used some places but most government agencies were still on mini computers or mainframes which didn't generally support that type of software. Even the ISAM databases of the time required compaction and cleanup nearly nightly which generally needed some downtime (offline).

Hell, a couple of years ago there was an article talking about the IRS still running a critical system that is 60 years old and written in a some assembly type language that isn't well understood anymore. So not surprised the SSA does this. lol
Be creative, seems like most areas have items in stock, maybe not the typical staples, but items are available.
Not Just the End of IT, the End of IT Contractor
Automation can help you stay compliant under quarantine conditions
Our model for everything in the universe is pinned at integer values. I think that's gp's point.
Neuroboros?
Check out the HOPL conferences, they're really fascinating. I'll post a link if I can find an index of them.
I'm all for inventiveness and solving problems. It's great. We also need to look at the limits of our own knowledge and ability to design things, elegantly summarized as

> The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

(https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Fatal_Conceit#Ch._5:_The_F...)

We can invent those things, sure, but we can't necessarily anticipate all problems with them. For example, a city with 10 million sq. ft. (according to Google, about 0.36 sq. mile) of open space would be very cramped compared to New York, which has Central Park (1.3 sq miles). A virus like COVID-19 in a more dense location than NY could be far worse. Or to take another example, plastic bags are certainly one way to capture waste, but there was a movement to produce fewer plastic bags.

We really don't have all the answers - we have people who think they have all the answers, and we have some other people that understand that the questions are hard.
This sort of "corporate bloat" was incredibly common in the "dot-com" era. I'm not surprised to hear it's still happening. You gotta hire a ton of people to justify that VC money.
Ask HN: What is your favorite Customer support tool
One of the goals of our bootstrapped SAAS business is to reduce manual support touch-points or "tickets" as much as possible and try to provide the customer a great experience. So we already go for things like Tutorials, help hints, faqs etc but what about tools that also provide things like in-app hints, smart hints (based on what customer is potentially trying to do) etc ? I have looked at a few but wondering what HN recommends ? So ideally this tool should have:

Basics: Create tutorials, faqs etc. searchable/indexable/taggable

Advanced: Onboarding walkthrough, tours?? (do we still do this), In-App help popups, widget.

Super AI: detect what customer is probably trying to do and offer help through a hint/popup etc. The tool should allow us to create those workflows.

Suggestions ?
Yahoo Pipes is (kinda) back
> I think with a long enough time, the roles of the two languages will become significantly clearer.

I also expect this to be the case. But when I try to think of historical context, I come up blank. Was there this much polarization between languages in the past? I remember similar rumblings between Java and C# like 15-20 years ago, but that had more to do with the corporate backing and licensing IIRC. This feels more like political/tribal arguing.
Not a question but a suggestion: create tools that help organizers deal with no shows, especially chronic no shows. One of the meetups I used to attend planned for a 50% no show rate. Other organizers have stated they have similar no show rates.

I myself ended a meetup I had maintained for half a decade after one particular incident where an event was full two months in advance but then had a 90% no-show/last minute cancellation rate. This creates all kinds of problems for organizers and can impact the enjoyability of events for the attendees. Meetup offers little in the way of tools for tracking and dealing with this problem so you've got a chance to differentiate your service from them.
> "shutting off everything except storage would do a good job"

Except it wouldn't. This is the 3rd time in this thread explaining that. Edge cases matter, especially when creating leading to new mistakes like setting a budget and deleting data or shutting off service when customers need it most.

If it's not a hard budget but a complex set of rules to disable services... then you already have that today. Use the alarms and APIs to turn off what you don't need.
A what the hell? Farrago? That’s a bigger sin than semicolons
I recognize it may be difficult to understand, but this is a thread about backwards compatibility. Of course if I had any faith in the contemporary Python community, I would still be treating Python as a serious programming language and not be suggesting this is a difficult concept for someone to grasp.
I think the parent means that if you don't agree/sign the "you can spy on me" policies, they just don't hire you.
https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/27/we-dont-know-hydroxychlo...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-25/hydroxych...

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/are-hydroxychloroquine-and-...
Apple II History Book
Yes, yes, I understand your point. What I'm trying to say is that the PIs in my department (the ones who made it through the filter, that is) don't seem to have the “fake sciencey hypey overconfident, bullshit brand” that you're talking about.

I might just be really lucky to be in a clean department, but Machiavellian researchers accumulating in academia by filtering or otherwise just isn't my experience, sorry.

I'm interested in hearing your experience though because it sounds like it's very different. I'm studying accelerator physics by the way, an extremely applied sub-field of physics. It may be that it's easier to weed out the people that don't pull their weight here.
Seconded. I loved having access to this as a student and would love other curious people to be able to get at these papers.
The Grumpy Economist – Beyond testing: The central question for pandemic policy
Well said. to add to that list, real companies often have to handle taxes, international payments, regulations, laws. Also, enterprise companies (not retail app gimmicks) also have sales forces, contract people, and account execs. Those scale with the growth of the business (hopefully sub-linearly, but still scale.)

The difference you will see on the examples being cited here are those companies existing on ad revenue (or in growth-cash burn mode making no $) -- if you can ignore realities of business then yes you can run lean.

Show me an Instagram or WhatsApp that had global payments, regulations, taxes, etc and managed to do it with 5 or 10 or 13 people -- it does not exisit.
There's a happy medium. A lot of things like roof trusses are much more precisely and cheaply built in a shop and then transported to the site.

But, yes, most houses around me have so many flaws that it seems problematic to count them as assets. Christopher Alexander has a lengthy calculation on this in 'The Nature of Order.'
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The accessibility improvements are very good news of course, but the visual redesign looks extremely amateurish and lacking in 'depth' compared to what was there before. It reminds me of GUI applications in the late 1980s, which had to cope with very limited color support. We can do a lot better nowadays!
Cardinality is fundamentally integral, so if the basal layer of reality consists of discrete non-infinite configurations it should not be surprising that you see it resolve in some integral constants. Also, physical infinities have never actually been observed so you should definitely be more skeptical of that notion just on a prior basis.

Also, even if we take as given your supposition r.e. infinite types of particles, a variant of the question is just as interesting: why are only threes of them observable and why do our models seem to do a decent job of explaining reality with only threes of these infinite variants?