skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Even in a city you're completely surrounded by people who don't have desk jobs. All the people who deliver stuff to your office, the maintenance staff, all retail and restaurant employees, law enforcement and fire/EMS, taxi and car service drivers, and on and on and on.

And that's just what's in an office district. Drive down the NJ Turnpike or something and count how many massive employment centers you see that are primarily not office jobs. Everything from the shopping mall to the refinery to the airport to the distribution center.
Hungarian here, some of the hungarians are very aware, that this is one of the last step to became an actual dictatorship.

I hope there is a way for the EU to stop this, because I'm sure, the residents will not, however all they've done yet is some press release: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20200324IP...
I'll counter this with my enjoying the extra 90 minutes a day from no commute and how much healthier I'm eating by not going out to restaurants all the time. WFH means I can get up at noon and go stretch or workout and I have time to cook a real breakfast or lunch.

Stress levels are lower, my back feels better, and my home workouts are going great!
A lot of “very important” employee-control bullshit suddenly doesn’t matter when the person in question is in a C-level or board position. See also: piss tests, limits on doing other work while with an employer. Very important you’re sober as a judge and giving your company your undivided productive output—unless you’re CEO, then, a weekend habit or two and you’re involved with four companies at once in some capacity? Sure, go nuts.
i dont know if their data is bogus or not but I can tell you that japan has engineered their society with infection control in mind. if people are even the least bit under the weather they put on a face mask. Many people who directly interface with large numbers of people wear them all the time (clerks, train station employees etc). hygiene is very important. many more doors are automatic than in most of the world. anything that can be touchless usually is. when any authority even hints that they want their passengers/employees/citizens to do or not do something it is taken a command and followed rigorously.

I'm wondering if self-isolation along with a culture of face masks is why their numbers are so low. A single person wearing a cotton face mask wont move the numbers down at all but a majority of the population both retarding their exhalation of virulent loads and their inhalation of virulent loads will. Should also be emphasized that the philosophy behind face masks isnt "dont you make me sick" its "i really dont want to make you sick"
It is a small study out of China, but yes, the #'s here are not good. 19/22 patients (~85%) put on 'invasive mechanical ventilation' died (read:intubation)

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2...
Things at WeWork must be quite dire.
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kind can definitely be made to work in CI but it's often difficult. For instance it's not necessarily easy to spin up new containers from within the container that your CI job is executing in. That's not an unsolvable problem but Krucible eliminates the problem entirely.
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A few years ago, several companies (Pixelapse) tried to create such a thing - GitHub for Designers. All of them failed... any thoughts why? There are many version control for Designers and also many portfolio websites (Dribbble, Behance) But there is nothing that combines them both.
> This wasn't a bad move by Image Consulting, but it was a dumb one.

It was both bad and dumb.
As a silver lining it sounds like you rapidly improved your company's security practices.
GIFs are the new VHS - bad quality, bulky, slow - but truly ubiquitous.
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I've only been a professional for 8 years but I've never had this experience as a developer.
I hope the furloughed workers will be able to get unemployment benefits or something similar. Otherwise being furloughed is the worst of both worlds: employed, but unpaid.

On the other hand, being furloughed rather than laid off will mean the workers keep their health insurance.
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Same here -- until recently the door nearest my desk was the one the CEO would use to enter/leave the office. The first thing you see when you open that door is my 21" screen, and it was nerve-wracking the whole time. Now that I'm home I'm so much more relaxed, and way more productive as a result.
Yes, the researchers thought that in normal instances that it could last 30 minutes in the air. Also, health officials are pointing to instances like this choir practice to show that aerosolization of the virus is an important thing to take into consideration.
Do you have any tip for android app that can provide some enhanced experience reading the pdf articles (like from ACM?) on Android mobile phone?

I don't mean generic PDF reader for Android. I'm looking for something that provides similar user experience like Firefox's "reader view". Is there something like that?
Coronavirus: Hungary government gets sweeping powers
I've been starting up using Go as "fast Python" for web services / REST APIs. The patterns encouraged by Go development are actually how I preferred to write Python in the first place, which is to say

1. largely avoiding huge tightly-coupled frameworks like Django

2. writing a little more boilerplate with the payoff of making code a lot clearer to reason about without having to step through tons of layers of overly-dynamic libraries

I think Go will really start to eat up the backend web services space in the coming years.
Hungary’s Viktor Orbán wins vote to rule by decree
Having your hours or pay cut significantly qualifies for unemployment.
Of course. The Rust people here will upvote anything about Rust, even AI generated blogspam.
Ah, that's cool. Cheers!
Its called hotdesking and there are definitely some startups selling solutions to organize this
Doesn't look good, they had earlier corporate layoffs in February [1], before this entire thing hit. My guess is it's only a matter of time before they close shop for good.

Also check out all the WARN notices from businesses in NY posted in the last week [2]. COVID-19 is largest (within the USA) in NY. As a result many businesses are closing / furloughing / laying off people.

[1]: https://www.labor.ny.gov/app/warn/details.asp?id=7098

[2]: https://www.labor.ny.gov/app/warn/
We need a tutorial on how to detect if you're being monitored like this. As an employee I would like to know just so that I'm aware. I don't necessarily think my company is doing this but it would still be great if there was some kind of a way to at least know.

It's a given that any company you work for has full and complete access to your work email and private Slack workspace messages(DM or private channel). Same goes for MS Teams or anything else similarly paid for and/or run by the company.

I would especially like know if they were doing something like:

- keystroke logging

- taking screenshots at intervals

- process monitoring

- deep packet inspection
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There's an "edit this page" option on the top right of the page: https://crdt.tech/implementations
If I take a personal note using a company-issued pen, must that be disclosed to my employer?

It's not black and white, and many people will have some expectation of privacy when using company-provided equipment.
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I don't see the problem with taking stances. The very act of thinking about such thing is a stance by itself.

You can simply take stances that would reduce harm, avoid collapse and (optionally) maximize benefit for everyone. The current stance of WHO doesn't seem to be in that realm and something could/should be done about it.

There's no action without a stance.
Would any crystal users care to comment on how the editor story is now with crystal?

I tried it a few months ago and scry was not giving me any autocomplete in vs code.
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Same in Switzerland. If there is a specific reason for surveillance the employee must also be informed of upcoming surveillance and the consequences if something were to be found.
Yes, you can. Go to import and change to your screenshots directory. Then select "Import Only"... restart the app and your default screenshot directory will be the new directory it watches for new screenshots.
An OS has many aspects to it. Scheduling tasks is only one of the aspects. Async/await is just the interface/mechanism in dealing with the tasks, in this case cooperative tasks.

Interacting with hardware, dealing with interrupts, memory mapping/managing, task isolation, etc are all other aspects of an OS that are apart from task scheduling but still needed.

Cooperative multitasking works fine as long as the users/developers understand the limitation.
You issue an emergency procurement. The Federal government has the added power of mandating action.

Will it ship Amazon Prime? No. But you'll be surprised how quickly people will deliver.
> When you do widespread testing as China did in Zhejiang you can find a lot of mild cases. Indeed, Iceland, which did the same, has 1020 cases and 2 deaths.

Two significant notes, however:

* China reports that its outbreak has largely resolved. The vast majority of the 1,000 cases in Iceland are still active, so we don't know how many deaths Iceland will eventually have. South Korea's current fatality rate still seems to be around 1%, with many cases yet to resolve.

* China seems to include only symptomatic cases in its total. That should bias its fatality rate upwards, since the denominator does not include any asymptomatic people who resolved without developing a full case of COVID-19. (Note that this will also be true for jurisdictions that require symptoms for testing. I believe that SK tested many asymptomatic people, but the US for example is not.)

Note that the 1%CFR estimates are based on full access to medical resources. When medical systems are overwhelmed as in Italy, we expect that number to increase from that baseline. Jurisdictions that report a markedly lower fatality rate are likely to have had systematic problems in identifying or reporting on case totals.
> However, in computer enthusiast circles in the late 20th century and early 21st, the non-standard viri form (sometimes even virii) was well attested, generally in the context of computer viruses.

I think it's pretty funny that the incorrect usage is in computer circles. I have seen many engineer coworkers use the wrong -ii suffix (e.g. virii, statii) in order to sound "fancy" :eyeroll:
Really hope that's the case for me as well. I've been experiencing unrecoverable gpu hangs on my i915 Skylake chip with recent kernels (5.2-5.5).
>I'll agree on your definition of "politics", which - correct me if I'm wrong - is any activity that involves decision making.

I'm actually trying to imply something more realpolitik - that China defines what's political in this case.

Because understand, anything less than fully recognizing that Taiwan is a province under the lawful control of the Chinese government and submitting to that authority means this organization would be recognized by China as extremist and any Taiwanese involved with it would be considered enemies of the state, and censored at best, or arrested at worst. And the more popular and useful this organization became, the harder China would crack down on it.

This is why I'm saying an organization like this can't be apolitical - that's not something the world recognizes or allows.
I'm sorry this is the impression I created.

Ultimately we're talking about a .0 version here. That's not going to end up in a Linux distro without further testing.

My post was directed to people manually installing latest kernels. That's not what the average "I want a Linux Desktop" user should do. It's targetted for people who tend to play with their systems. It's what they expect.
>They have no land and one of the largest agricultural producers in the world.

That's a bit of a misconception. Most people get the impression from the headlines that they produce a lot of food, but that is not really the case.
The Netherlands is the world's second largest EXPORTER of "agricultural products", by dollar value. 10% of that is consulting and equipment. Another 10% is flowers. Those are not food. Even in the remaining 80%, it is mainly products that are high in monetary value, but low in land efficiency, like cheese and flavorless hydroponic tomatoes. The Netherlands actually only produces 50% of the calories needs of their population, and exports away a good chunk of that. They rely on importing staples to feed their population.

>More efficient, cheaper, better for the environment

The Netherlands model is none of those things. It is just used as a propaganda tool for a corporate greenwashing campaign to convince people that spending lots of money on environmentally destructive and wasteful technology is good for the environment, when it is actually being done because it is good for the bank accounts of a small minority of wealthy people.
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capnproto RPC actually supports some interesting features related to asynchronous execution: https://capnproto.org/rpc.html#time-travel-promise-pipelinin...
Meanwhile people just assume Japan's numbers must be honest because... why?

FWIW, Every report I read was skeptical of Japan's numbers, usually based in thinking they had an ulterior motive to downplay the outbreak because they didn't want to move the Olympics.
"Aylward's biography was removed from the WHO's leadership webpage directly following the interview.[11]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Aylward#Controversy
Thanks, was on mobile which doesn't show it.

Edit: (reply is now showing)
The low rate of deaths in the rest of China shows that the lockdown of Wuhan works. The rest of China never had that many cases.

Death being concentrated in one region is not an exclusive phenomenon in China. If you look at Korea's stats you'll realize there many provinces with zero deaths[1]:

Incheon: 58 cases, 0 death
Seoul: 426 cases, 0 death
Gyeongnam 95 cases, 0 death
Ulsan: 45 cases, 0 death
Chungbok: 44 cases, 0 death
Sejong 46 cases, 0 death
Deajeon: 45 cases, 0 death
Chungnam: 127 cases, 0 death
Jeonbuk: 13 cases, 0 death
Gwangju: 20 cases, 0 death
Jeonam: 9 cases, 0 death
Jeju: 9 cases, 0 death
Airports: 202 cases, 0 death

Deaths are only concentrated in 5 regions:

Daegu: 6624 cases, 111 deaths
Gyeongbuk: 1298 cases, 38 deaths
Gyeonggi: 463 cases, 5 deaths,
Busan: 118 cases, 3 deaths
Gangwon: 36 cases, 1 death

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_S...
So the text of the article doesn't factor into your diagnosis of my projection?

"Alison’s balcony offers her a small degree of distance from her partner..."

"For the estimated 1.6 million women who experienced domestic abuse..."

"...self isolation for women in coercive or violent relationships..."

"But he’s the worst..."

"...the charity WomanKind in Bristol has had a number of new callers."

"...women can leave violent households to go to a refuge during the lockdown."

"Help is still out there for women enduring domestic abuse."

"Sian Norris is a writer and feminist activist"

Such mental arithmetic, much meninist numbers.
I've written well engineered code in JS, I think it just requires a lot of discipline because the runtime doesn't help you.
The Law of Supply and Demand, as always and as ever, is working exactly as expected.[a]

And that's not necessarily a good thing right now.

It sure doesn't feel "right" :-(

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[a] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/law-of-supply-demand.as...
I like the idea of a non-judgmental, studious open space like libraries. The idea that no one cares what I work on makes it easy to take a couple quick breaks throughout the day, and those breaks help maintain focus during the other periods. I dislike the idea that someone can "catch" me on HN in an open office.
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I think it’s more attack boats operating very differently to bombers. Attack boats essentially operate like surface ships with tactical advantages. Bombers operate like minuteman silos with mechanical complications.
not with google's reputation behind it...
I don't know Rust but Go:

* Go is an extremely productive language
* It doesn't have all the fancy cool features other languages have
* The community is huge and it is easy to find libraries
* It has gained popularity faster than any other language I can think of. They must have done something right.
The best outcome is to have some development regarding N95 production, because it's not going to happen in the current scenario.

I'm not from America. I'm from Europe. So you're basically saying we need tens of billion of masks worldwide... that simply won't happen.

I understand that would be the optimal solution in your opinion. But some countries are showing good results with a not so optimal solution, which is surgical masks and home made masks.
I'm surprised that, at this point, there are still originals in museums, especially for very desirable works as some replicas are hard to tell apart from the original. It can be done. If they hire professional 'replicators', this type of museum theft could be completely eradicated.

Another possibility is that maybe in this case a replica was stolen and the museum doesn't want to divulge that.

And want to add that this stolen work is almost un-sellable, everybody knows is missing and if it ever resurfaces it will be claimed back, thus nobody would want to own it. But what do I know..
I'm not convinced that it would have been reasonable to do so three months ago. Three months ago there were rumors that there was something brewing in some part of China most people had never heard of.

I point this out to suggest that your expectation might be a little unfair. If such an order had gone out one month ago it would have been controversial. But if you want to say that the administration is a month behind in their reactions it would be more fair.

You seem to have observed that a giant beauracracy is reacting weeks behind a crisis and this seems to upset you.
Why do we still keep cats? Dogs seem so much more useful.
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I think deciding which human being to label as "dead weight" and overfocus on that question is on the same path to paranoia as thinking you need to monitor them all closely.

How many times have you seen contributing employees who are not understood by their bosses mislabelled as "dead weight"? I think it happens pretty often, especially in performance-review-obsessed cultures.
Follow-up : Was on a group call today on WhatsApp. All packets were being routed through Facebook. So, group calls are indeed not E2E.
Key point - the variation only applies when a ballistic missile submarine is "on patrol". Which is definitely not the same period of time as when they're out at sea.

When a ballistic missile submarine is NOT on patrol they operate just like a fast-attack submarine.
The only leverage you need is the “emotional upper ground”, if you will. Just the fact that you’re on the receiving end of a threat matters more than how realistic the threat is, especially in a pre-existing abusiva relationship.
The value (in terms of money) of art has always been confusing to me.

Art has monetary value because:

1 it is a famous, one-of-a-kind piece

2 it can be used for money laundering and/or illegal transactions

Pieces in museums are always in the #1 category. Any other piece with high monetary value is clearly in the #2 category.

This stolen van Gogh will probably end up in a private collection, but really, what's the point? Since it is now a known stolen piece it now has no value in both category #1 and #2.

I have a hard time believing that the new 'owner' had it stolen for the artistic value. Really, if he/she wanted to look at it, he/she could have just gone to the museum. (Well, not right now due to COVID19, but you get the point).
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protobuf is just the serialization format gRPC is the replacement for HTTP and presumably asynchronous HTTP requests. Still not sure what their point is.
Furloughed employees typically qualify for unemployment.
There are plenty of places where offices were the norm some years ago. When I worked in Germany the standard was either single Offices or team offices With max 5 people. In the US IBM also had offices when I contracted there. Microsoft always talked about their offices as important. Developers sitting elbow to elbow in a room with dozens of people is a fairly recent development from what I have seen. The need for headsets to get some quiet also seems fairly new.
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Usually the frames are left behind.

https://www.npr.org/2015/03/18/393565096/25-years-after-art-...
Awesome work! I’m a big fan of fuzzywuzzy so I’ll be checking this out:) Currently I’m split between using fuzzy logic in my backend python code as opposed to it being built into a sql statement (via SOUNDEX() which does matching based on phonetic similarity).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkoQjIBA_3U&feature=youtu.be

Yeah, I see. So, was the victim from the Nabari wine case vindicated? How about the Ashikaga murder case? Or the imperial bank poisoning case?
You don't mandate as much as you put out an offer. With the right incentive pretty sure many companies could switch to produce these items. And that's the point, it takes time to set up a production line, and the main reason why the government should have acted before.