skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found this article pretty funny, but not in the way intended.

Here is a tip for managers (new and experienced out there): If you can't tell by their work product if your people are working or not, then you have a much bigger problem than what they are doing on their computer when you aren't looking.

My experience as a new manager was pretty chaotic. I knew it was my job to lead my team to get something done but between telling them to get something done, and it being done, how could I know that they were working on it? It drove me nuts for a while so I asked a friend who had been a manager for while what they did and the answer surprised me in its simplicity, it was "How much time do you give people to do something, and did they do it?"

The secret was having something that was unambiguously measurable as "done" and establishing that expectation at the beginning. These days I'll say to the team "When we are done, these things will be true ..." and list off the set of things we can say are true to indicate completion. I'll also note them in my notebook so that I can track them over time.

The whole team knows what the exit criteria are so everyone knows if we're done or not. Once you get to know your team better you can add incentive things, so that conversation would sound more like, "The minimum we have to do to insure this is done are x, y, and z. If we can also do p, q, or r it will have this additional positive effect."

It also means I can go to a team member at a 1:1 and say, "Ok, I'd like you to take x, what needs to be true for you to be able to say that x is true?" Which encourages them to break up the problem into smaller bits.

If you have weekly 1:1s with people then you can check in on the status of their smaller bits, toward making the larger bits true. You always know who is doing work and who is under performing or needs help.

For more service type teams (like IT or SRE) you measure things like "our backlog has not grown over the last 30 days" or "the median time to resolve tickets is less than 24 hrs" etc. The key is you can measure it, and the measurement is not subjective.

Managers who need "spyware" to figure out if there folks are working or not need to be replaced with managers who know how to manage.
Editor story is a bit rough still. I'm using scry (the Crystal Language Server) with coc-nvim. It seems to be a little bit smarter than simple "words in buffer" completion, but not much. Sometimes it just quits and I haven't investigated why. Currently I'm just writing spec tests and simple data structures/algorithms. (the typical thing I do when learning a language) I did start a Lucky project this past weekend to see what that's all about. If I get more into it, I'll probably break down and figure out how to fix autocompletion/go-to-definition/show-references/etc.
At the end of the day, hiding exponential growth of this is impossible.

That's what really bugs me about those who love to point fingers at how this or that country is counting things wrong (often revealing their biases in the process).

Maybe every country has a random constant factor between actual cases and reported cases. But it doesn't matter - if it goes exponential, we'll know.
If Lead is terrible, thanks to getting it out of petrol, why are we still selling lead solders which will easily poison you? I have done some soldering with zero education on how to properly do it or the safety implications. I've most likely poisoned myself.

Can we not ban lead for non-certified use? Like I don't see home depot selling liquid nitrogen wily nily. Same with oxygen tanks. Isn't playing with Lead in the same ballpark?
I'm not a Linux kernel developer, but it does have a few similar mechanisms AFAIU. If a driver needs to perform more work in response to an interrupt than would fit into the actual handler, it can use cooperatively scheduled "tasklets" or "softirqs."
Ask HN: Anyone else find something odd about the Covid-19 crisis?
My argument is that the national security mechanisms of western nations are not so fragile to be brought to their knees by some schmucks eating bats and snakes.

In WW2 the Japanese threatened to destroy key infrastructure using biological agents. the militaries of the world have had almost a century at the very least to prepare for this contingency. I don’t buy how unprepared they are .
Dolphins?? I draw the line there those damn Neanderthals!
The studies of droplet dispersal are laboratory, not field studies. And they are imperfect models of how the virus is transmitted in the actual field.

We are being given many many natural experiments. Posts like the parent here, claiming to refute and invalidate actual experience will have to eventually acknowledge reality.

Otherwise it's "who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes" retreat to authority.
Thanks for the information, all typos are now fixed.
The number of people dying on ventilators is not meaningful question because patient dying from COVID-19 almost always becomes critical before dying. If there is ventilator, they get hooked into them for a some time.

The real question to ask is how many people who would survive with ventilator die without it.
Minor feedback - I wish I could click on a trial on a map to go to that trial page.
This is fantastic, terrific way to visualize this information. It's interesting that Hokkaido is red for infections but the growth rate is really slow. Are the distant prefectures less likely to follow guidelines from Tokyo and reporting more honestly?
The automatic doors might be the quiet heroes here. Given that hands have proved to be among the predominant avenues for the virus spread, I have been keen to monitor where my hands are put into use here in Japan. The only door knobs I have to turn on a normal day routine are my apartment and office doors. Any other place: from convenient stores, ATMs to buildings, automatic doors are quietly but effectively protecting the masses
'Virus-fighting' scientist gets magnets stuck in nose
I found tabula or camelot to be pretty good at extracting tables from pdf. I worked on a few JP's gov PDFs and they are not fancy so that's nice. Some light post-processing is still needed but the automation probably will keep working if the PDF format doesn't change (big if of course).
A great book that helped me was "On Writing" by Stephen King.

https://www.amazon.com/Writing-10th-Anniversary-Memoir-Craft...
Ask HN: Does anyone know much about Edgenuity?
This is more for learning and understanding (curiosity) than anything.

Edgenuity is an education platform that a lot of U.S. based schools use regularly but now with so many kids out of school and transitioning to virtual school Edgenuity seems to be struggling with the scale to support the virtual school. I am not criticizing them, scale is hard, but if anyone knows the basic architecture/structure of how they built their platform it would be interesting.

It does appear that they are using .NET on Windows Server in AWS (but not 100% sure on AWS side). I am not looking for trade secrets, just want/like to learn from companies that are facing a scale problem, and knowing if they are a monolith or micro-services or more functional services etc can help. I have my guesses on the details but it'd be interesting to know some basics at least.
> If a severe case was reported by medical staff

How do you, without any policy or political positions, determine what is or is not “medical staff”?
Yes, this 100%. However, when you go to the museum and get to see an original and are mind blown by it, have a mystical experience but you not aware that what you looked at is indeed a perfect copy. It's all psychological. This is one reason museums don't want to disclose that they have copies on display.
> Three months ago there were rumors that there was something brewing in some part of China

I disagree. Anyone paying attention knew, in the first weeks of January, that something very dangerous was happening. Moreover, we cannot equate the US government to a common person. They have the most expensive intelligence apparatus in the world. And we have an expensive government exactly to protect the population against real threats like this.
China has a long, long history of suppressing access to information though. Not just in reporting false data, but also in limiting the press from investigating issues themselves. Are you honestly saying that Japan and the US have a comparable history?

> And don't tell me that anything after January was China's fault. It is not like governments around the world didn't know what happened there.

Both are possible, and both are very likely. China suppressed information to save face, and many other countries were incompetent in responding to the information they did have access to.
As I said, this is a false equivalence.

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

These “information control” done by the US and China are in no way comparable and any suggestion that they are is pure whataboutism. We are discussing this on a website based in the US, where freedom of speech is more-or-less guaranteed. Try doing the same in China and see how the CCP reacts.

For another example of this, consider that the American president often complains (rightly or wrongly, not commenting on its validity) that the media is against him, misinterprets his statements, etc.

Can you imagine such a situation in China? It is almost absurd to contemplate: an independent media that is overly harsh on Xi or the ruling party. Such a state of affairs should make it obvious that the intensity of censorship is a level of magnitude greater under the CCP.
Researchers Solve One of the Most Notorious Open Problems in Math
They are nit taken that seriously absent visible injuries. And statistically cops are more likely to be domestic abusers then general population.
I also really liked that scene you're talking about.

Not sure you think it's terrible though, I really liked it all the way through.

For people that don't know about it, it started off as a blog post on less wrong so the first chapter or so is a little different in style.

If you want to see if you'd like it I suggest people read Chapter 10 (the sorting hat chapter) and if that appeals to you to go back and start from the beginning.
2-19-20 sell: SPY buy: SPXU

2-28-20 sell: SPXU buy: SPXL

3-4-20 sell: SPXL buy: SPXU

3-24-20 sell: SPXU buy: SPXL
Regardless of how you feel on the matter, I have never been to a hackerspace where people were not eating and drinking inside.
Any heavy users? As a Ruby/Rails dev, do I have something to gain from learning this?
Seats are installed via a track system present on the floor. Seats are part of what’s called BFE, and a flexible track system means you’re not drilling holes in the floor.

Limited loads could be secured in the passenger cabin using the same tracks. Whether or not that actually makes economic sense is a different discussion.

You can see this in action here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/8scjkk/ever_wonde...
They're reporting 2.5k deaths in Wuhan, while most estimates and other sources put it closer to 20k+. A factor of 10 isn't much of a change?
Weird, because of was since the early days of Starlink.

"Not to go bankrupt" was only the response to a question about taking Starlink public. Please don't spread lies by taking quotes out of context.
> Hazard pay

How many industries offer a hazard pay? I know the military does for conflict zones, what amount do they offer?
"I could care less" could mean anything other than "I don't care completely", including "I care passionately about this, it is the thing I care most about", thus making it meaningless. If I said "I could work less", would you assume I meant "I work almost zero hours"?
"I promise this is the OTHER Van Gogh by the same name, not the one that comes in news stories about the theft when you Google it."
Iceland as of March 30 has done 16K tests. Which is 45K/million people (4.5% of their entire pop), they have 6.6% infection rate. [1]

Hubei population is 60M. So they'd have to do 2.7 Million tests to have the same degree of testing at Iceland.

Even with an excessive lockdown, it seems that just on this issue alone, China's numbers look really quite wrong.

That there was a breakout in other parts of the country and almost no deaths look very suspicious.

Combined with the fact that all public Chinese information is part of an 'orchestration of public opinion' (i.e. propaganda effort) and is not based in any reality, so of course, there's a credibility problem to begin with.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_testing
> Reading things like this really dampen my enthusiasm for trying Linux again.

It shouldn't. If you use a major desktop distribution (ie, Ubuntu) it will be many months before you are actually using kernel 5.6.x.
oouuu timely for me. thank you.
Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer

High Stakes, No Prisoners - history of the birth of the Internet written by the founder of FrontPage, with a keen critique of Netscape's history - Charles Ferguson

Computer Wars - a look at the decline of IBM by the early 90s - Charles Ferguson

Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley - An oral history of the Valley in the 80s and 90s.
De-paywalled: https://archive.is/yLgUF
New  noise-canceling tech to transform wireless earbuds
This looks vaguely relevant so figured I'd ask the question here.

I'm working on what can be pretty well reduced to an AST builder. I have nodes of certain types which come with a set of relevant properties as well as the set of types that you're allowed to nest. I'm looking for a markup language to express these schemas so that I can generate the UI components (given parent node X, generate a widget with a form that can be used to submit legal children) and perform validation (given AST tree coming from the client, validate it server-side before persisting it)

Currently using JSON schema but it's very verbose. Any ideas?
Welcome to the free market.
On this previous company we used to get a network message on every login explaining to us that since this was company hardware there was no such thing as an expectation of privacy.

They would install all kinds of stuff to monitor our computers, and continuously require explanation on why we installed this or that tool. It wasn't fun.
I'm not sure it's to sound fancy, just done by naive analogy. And perhaps because viruseseseses sounds bad to English language natives.

Here's a not unrelated question: 1 computer mouse, several computer ...?
> 3. Demand is unidirectional: medical supplies are made in a handful of countries (ie China) but there isn't a huge demand for air freight the other direction. See also the container problem.

This has got to change. Why is everything made in China? Anyone not coming to grips with the national security implications of not creating critical equipment in your own country (or region) is praying for doom.
That figure is meaningless because he can't account for the people who are still on a ventilator on the moment and will eventually die.
> However, that's exactly why verified, anonymous data reporting would be a good starting point

Verification is probably the first place that the apolitical goal falls apart.
You have examples of other stolen art they possess?
Long story short, pytest-xdist was not a good fit with a large scale Python project which has a fairly fragile test suite so I ended up implementing a new pytest plugin, pytest-split, which makes it possible to split the full test suite into n "sub suites" based on the execution time of the tests. GitHub offers 20 concurrent jobs (free plan) for GitHub Actions based workflows. By combining these two, it's relatively easy to boost the CI of a large Python test suite.

Blog post (e.g. more about the motivation behind pytest-split): https://blog.jerrycodes.com/pytest-split-and-github-actions/

pytest-split: https://github.com/jerry-git/pytest-split

Demo project (pytest-split + GitHub Actions): https://github.com/jerry-git/pytest-split-gh-actions-demo

Opinions and thoughts are very welcome :)
People downvoting this as a joke, it could also bring up a point. Lead acetate was used as a sweetener occasionally in US food products up until the FDA was established. People have been somewhat aware of its poisoning effects since the Romans ("mad painters disease") but still used it in food and water systems. Pretty sure it is still used in some lipsticks as well.
> Hey guys, maybe China was just having literally the same organizational problems the US is having now leading to underreporting of numbers, back in Jan-Feb when every commenter on reddit and HN were saying China was covering it up.

I wish I could be as generous as you but China had a history of lying and suppressing objective truth. They behave more like Russia during the Cold War, than western countries with free and unrestricted press.
Think of "I could go out less", "I could eat less", "I could spend less", etc. All these phrases clearly imply that you're overdoing it now and need to stop. "I could care less", as used, means the opposite, that they don't care almost at all.

Your explanation is a retcon.
I'm not claiming F# is not viable without the module system, I'm saying F# is not a drop-in replacement for OCaml. There are good reasons people might prefer OCaml. I that that's a reasonable response to this comment:

> I don't understand the Reason hype when F# / Fable already offers this

My only point is that there are good reasons people would prefer ReasonML/OCaml over F#. I never claimed there were no reasons other people might prefer F#.
No I think its the other way around. "Jive" was still in use up until the late 70s - The Bee Gees hit "Jive Talkin'" and a well-known scene form the comedy movie "Airplane" both being examples. It is/was almost always used in connection with speaking i.e "don't jive talk me"

The earlier musical dance/reference is the really just the Johnny Otis song which is actually just a Bo Diddley rip-off:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxU995zbfno
One of his most famous paintings matches 2 out of 3 of your criticisms, he only went wild with colour later. I agree the style change can seem abrupt but it happened over years.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Potato_Eaters
For comparison, a quick Google shows the unemployment rate in the US during the Great Depression was around 25% and during the 2008 recession was around 10%.

If this situation lasts too long, we'll all be saying hello to Great Depression v2.0.
Domestic abuse can be psychological, too.
Did a quick search and "Trader Joe’s and Walmart employees have received bonuses, while Target, Whole Foods, Amazon, and the Texas grocery store chain H-E-B are offering $2 per hour raises."

https://civileats.com/2020/03/20/breaking-grocery-store-work...

May also be coming to doctors, nurses (if it isn't there already):

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-says-administration-looki...

Customs workers, corrections officers, and a ton of other jobs also negotiating it. In Philly, among them are police, firefighters, sanitation workers, health care workers.

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/philadelphia-to-r...
I'm not questioning the painting's authenticity. I'm merely bewildered that someone would steal a Van Gogh that doesn't look like a Van Gogh to the untrained eye - how are you going to impress your billionaire friends with that hanging over the fireplace of your lair?

Although the thief will probably just blackmail the insurance/museum, so the style of the painting doesn't matter at all.
If you don't think there are loads of shady rich people in the world, you need to wake up.
Please Fund More Science
> you can no longer link together files built with different versions

True but this is already something that isn't really "supported" broadly. Some standard libraries work hard to keep that working, but others tend not to, and nobody knows if it's supposed to work reliably or not. And support for this binary compatibility also varies across platforms, like I don't think Microsoft bothers since you're supposed to always bundle a specific version of the runtime with your binary.

Single-version prebuilt libraries become more of a problem, but are those that widespread vs. source-based libraries?

But I think the broader point here that the paper is really pushing is for the committee to actually make a statement on things like this instead of their historically vague "it sort of works but we're not saying it will or indeed saying anything at all"
So did you just skip half of what they posted?

> if there is sufficient concrete suspicion of improper use of the work computer

That is when there is no legal issue.
More like it made sense in the early 1940's when there were wage and price controls due to WW2, and it just kinda stuck.
Yes, the momentum of U.S. healthcare's structures and practices is extremely frustrating. Watching the planning and implementation of the Affordable Care Act was very disheartening. I'm genuinely curious what circumstances or events would / shall be necessary to effect large-scale improvements.
When you have "enough" money you run out of things to purchase and start doing things for prestige among your social circle. For the right people I'm sure having a stolen van Gogh would increase that prestige.

The high end art community is about showing off and various scams with money (money laundering, loans, tax evasion, bribery, etc.) Pretty toxic stuff, but "I have so much money I don't know what to do with it all" is real and finds solutions.
I'm surprised many people don't understand your comment - I had the same thoughts. gRPC provides a very nice way to describe event driven microservices using their "stream" keyword. It allows the implementation to be async, blocking, or future based. You get access to a very rich ecosystem such as bazel's grpc \ proto rules, junit rules, grpc-web for streaming to the browser, out of the box support from istio / envoy, etc.
I was backpacking on 9/11. I did not hear the news until 9/12. Someone had made the effort to hike out to our camp and share the news (a day late), since one of us had a father who worked in the Pentagon. We stayed out and didn't return until several days later.
3 months ago 5K people were infected in a single day in China. The current administration was completely trained on how to handle a pandemic right after the inauguration. Unfortunately most of those folks have been fired and 3 months ago we were distracted by yet another scandal this time ending in Impeachment.

However 2 months ago this was the message from the White House:
'When you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.'

That un-fucking-believable 'head in the sand' moment happened at peak infection in China; 80K people infected. This administration isn't a month behind; they simply don't deal with things unless they are forced to.

The US stockpiles ventilators for emergencies like this for a reason. Someone was asleep at the switch in our Federal Government and the reaction is to lie about how well they are doing and blame everyone else.

I'm fed up, aren't you?
Let me preface this by stating that I don't actually have any special knowledge of the art or criminal world beyond what I've seen in the movies, so the following is pure speculation.

I could imagine that if a thief's motive were purely financial, he/she could ransom the painting. "This is a priceless piece of world heritage that is heavily insured. Send XXX BTC to this wallet or I'll burn up the painting and send you its ashes."
I don't deal in speculation and rumours sorry. The 2-3% assuming you have medical treatment has held true. The 10+% hospitalization has held true.

The lack of response from the US is in no way due to China's reporting, it's due to the US propaganda and incompetence.
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