skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
nobody gives a damn about others' problems

The world is full of other people's problems, 7.8 billion lifetimes of them.

It's not just narcissism if people are unable to confront it all at once.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compassion_fatigue
Employment in the US is generally at-will. Unless there are contracts otherwise, employers can raise or lower pay as they like, subject to few limitations.

That said, they're quite foolish to link this to the stimulus checks. And I suspect a lot of their employees (especially the better ones) will leave.
US Space Force’s Space Fence orbital tracking system is officially operational
The thing about science is that it's quite unpredictable. While I'm sure we can increase the efficiency of the system I'm not sure where the efficiency ceiling lies, as even with great processes it's simply not possible to know beforehand which approaches will be successful (if you did it would not require research).

I mean, look at the proportion of software projects that fail, which I'd estimate to be 50 % at least. And software engineering operates with much fewer unknowns compared to research.

Physics research is similar: Much of the research does not yield world-changing technology, or anything useful at all. I wouldn't say it's useless though, as unsuccessful projects still can provide inspiration for new research avenues and even if the research fails, the researcher (hopefully) gets better at doing research in the process, so the chances of producing something good the next time he/she tries increase.

I think the most promising avenue of increasing research productivity is to make it possible for more people to do quality research. Talent is everywhere but opportunity is not, so let's create more opportunity.
it's really rich to read a blog post from someone at YC wishing "the federal government was doing much more". YC and the extended universe of VCs have spent years providing an intellectual facade to undermine confidence in a centralized government, public funding of critical services, and promoting the profit motive in places like healthcare.

The past decade in America has seen the dominance of the capitalist tech utopians like Paul Graham, and we are seeing the results. For god's sake Peter Thiel was working with YC barely two years ago and now Sam wants to complain that the federal government isn't prepared to respond to crises?? what a joke.
Like others I found the recording profound at first. The birds at the end cheapened the experience for me because they made me question the authenticity of the sounds heard and whether this was leaning closer to an actual representation or an artistic interpretation. Perhaps somewhere in between.

Assuming that this is leaning closer to an actual representation of the sounds heard on that morning (with the dubious addition of some birds for "dramatic effect") one thing that I found particularly interesting is the noise/buzz that can be heard immediately after the guns are silenced. Could it be that this noise represents the people cheering for the end of war captured by the crude recording device of oil drums + film?
During the clinton administration, NIH funding doubled over ~5 years. This led to a glut of PhDs (far, far more than there are faculty slots or biotech jobs) who had limited job options and it didn't really translate to higher scientific productivity (in some sense, it just ended up selecting for professors who were more cutthroat and willing to publish lower quality stuff in higher h-index journals).

I've also seen, repeatedly, that most biologists (both wet-lab and computational) will just waste more money rather than using it to scale up productivity.

The real question is ultimately "how do we scale scientific productivity in a way that benefits humanity directly and in the short term", and few people have any answer to that. It seems like the current state of the art, and hard to improve on, is to fund lots of people, give them time to be creative, and then send them to meetings to get tipsy with people who have money, while demonstrating their posters. I'm not kidding.
This is very hyperbolic, perhaps sensationalist. China has been producing fakes that other countries are turning away.
Does anyone have a list of all the COVID-19 research and response orgs that would be funded?

I've worked in international dev where normally government grants go to a handful of familiars who subcontract out. It's often a question of visibility for everyone else (smaller groups either win subcontracts or have a shot at getting their work accelerated directly).

I know science funding is different, but I wanted to map all the orgs & relationships for visibility. The best list I can find are previous grantees of https://wellcome.ac.uk/
There isn't any evidence this software improves productivity. Also, they aren't purchasing the software because they expect the software to (a) increase in price or (b) become unavailable. So it isn't panic buying.
The camera in the video is a Graflex Graphic View, so made by the same manufacturer, but yeah, totally different in use. A Crown does not have the same level of movements. But they [Graphic Views] are relative bargains for view cameras if you can find one in decent shape.
That is so, was working, company sent me other side of the world, messed up expenses and cruz was they failed to pay me and my rent and everything bounced whilst I was stuck in another TZ, boss epicly shafted me and in short, had breakdown and lost everything.

Options to move are swap which entails swapping with somebody else who wants to move and the whole process fraught with hassel and could end up swapping with somebody doing same thing.

Local council have an unofficial policey of allocating some flats to certaint types and with that, almost case of each social housing block has a designated junkie. It's a liberal council and has been for decades and well, yeah.

Housing association utterly terrible and if you look up Metropolitian Housing Association you will see that this is a common issue with many residents of their and all they care about is...well, if you look at their twitter feed you will see what they are like, google review has them at 1* and many instances of comparable people in same situations.

Council, utter joke and don't get me started on how bad they are in this situation.

Support useless and anybody who has been good has been powerless to help and those who can help been beyond useless, again it is a joke.

I have some serious health issues as well and the crux is, I'm unable to progress anything forward and those who were supposed to help, been beyond useless and again, trust me, it's bad.

I wished I could articulate everything in detail so people would grasp how bad it is and all that I have tried, but it would be a inch long book and take me so long to write it, well, I'm not going to live that long anyhow. AS said, trying to deal with this kicks of PTSD from all past experiences and in short, I need help and never gotten the support I needed, plenty of lip service and the like and false promises and yet, here I still am and nothing changed.

Work wise, I burned out so many times over the decades, in many situations had my good nature abused and things like burning 80+ hours a week for no overtime only to be shafted and the like very common.
One of my coworkers did his dissertation on photolithography, I grew up in a family printing shop and we followed a remarkably similar process to generate the metal offset plates that were used in the presses. It turns out that the processes are so similar that my colleague and I often frequently remark about it during idle chit-chat.

There's pitifully few good explanation videos about the printing version of this process, but here's a quick video (in Chinese, but if you watch the OP's video this one should be easy to follow) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KENIyBWNhyk

The process in the printing industry has gotten very refined as well: you can go directly from a digital image file to a plate in one entirely automated step:

https://youtu.be/mA8Dnp0rp3Y

https://youtu.be/TeJ_STTfBsI
Everyone thinks it is cheaper in China, but reality is probably more complicated. Remember 10 years ago (probably every year ;-)) when companies started planning for more international software development cause you could pay Chinese and Indian developers less? Then sometimes it didn't work out and their salaries got higher.

The manufacturing industry local skill availability (manufacturing engineers?) must have degraded here in the US.
The standard is the web platform itself. That's the only standard that will ever be followed to any meaningful degree.

Much of the needless splintering we see today can be traced back to having too many mutually-incompatible reactive rendering systems. If you make a button in React, even though I'd like the exact same button in my Vue app, I can't use it because it's rendered via a different API.

The core barrier here comes down to the different templated-rendering systems. What we need is a browser standard for templated/reactive rendering of DOM content (data + template = DOM). The <template> element doesn't count because it doesn't actually do anything. Web components are nearly useless without having a story for reactive rendering.

Beyond just compatibility this would give web apps a massive performance boost, in terms of both CPU cycles and initial payload size. It's long past due.
What are some examples of consumer companies of this size that run super lean? Meetup had 35M users two years ago, so lets say something in the range of 3M-5M monthly actives for the sake of simplicity.
They just built a giant spaceship to try to get everybody in the same building, didn't they?
In today’s times I can not recommend The Fifth Sacred Thing enough.

Lilith’s Brood - nothing like it.
i did test it. in my setup we couldn't get IPsec to not drop a lotmof packages, so the benefits of aes-ni was lost in retries. switching that IPsec setup to chacha20-poly1305 actually made most of the drops go away.

I have no idea what was going on, but wireguard and IPsec was comparable in that test, with ispec being sliiiightly faster. the network has almost no latency, so if the retries remain on slower networks, that would change.
Contact Tracer: An open source contact tracing app for COVID19 pandemic response
Lol nvm. I thought you were talking about the Foundation series. I've never read the trilogy you're talking about. Thanks for the thoughtful answer though. Hope others find it interesting.
It depends on the PE firm. We thought the same at Magento (eBay > Permira Funds), but in the end it was a pretty good ride into Adobe. Ryan does not strike me as a corporate raider - he seems to genuinely like building companies (e.g. MongoDB)... curious if others have more to add.
I can't answer most of this since I don't know, but the first 6502 was fabricated at 8 microns. I wonder if a chip made at 15-20 microns would work just as well?
'Blue Lagoon' of Buxton dyed black by UK police to deter visitors
Project neglects UI paradigms/technical terms outside of the browser, that kind of wilful ignorance can only end in tears. Open up `designer-qt5` some time and marvel at the sheer number of UI widgets. https://duckduckgo.com/?iax=images&ia=images&q=qt+designer
Another tool to add to my always increasing music production toolbox!
The web has traditionally followed a pattern where people are left to try out new things themselves, experiment with ideas, have a competitive marketplace of libraries and frameworks, and then once there's a consensus the selected approach gets enshrined and implemented as a browser standard that everyone can use. This happened with DOM selection and XHR fetching (jQuery), with promises, with list comprehensions, with modules syntax (ES Modules). It's time it happened with reactive DOM rendering.
That Didier Raoult appears to have a history of image manipulation is not an ad hominem, and is apparently true. His 2006 offense was sufficiently bad as to be banned from publication for a time in a leading journal in his field. That is also not an ad hominem.

You also completely fail to engage with the first 2/3 of the text, which has any number of impersonal methodological critiques which are not addressed through a literature search.
My hypothesis is that the "with no symptoms" and "with symptoms" items actually do include deaths.

> Remember to not include death, because this is a quasi-hierarchy. The table tempts you to, but it's excluded. (The quasi-nature is because it is under the PCR tested positive umbrella on level 2.) So what about integrating level 3?

> That's simple. You don't. Because no matter how hard you try, the numbers won't add up. (e.g. Give it a try - you'll end up with 129 != 131 and 1147 != 1191. We'll need one of these numbers later.) Level 4 adds up though, so the plot thickens.

Note, however, that (131 - 129) + (1191 - 1147) = 46, i.e. the number of deaths.

So if you adjust the 131 and 1191 figures to match their subdivision, everything would sum up correctly, including the top level (pcr_tested_positive), which would then include deaths.

This would imply that 2 people without symptoms died, and 44 people with symptoms did.

Taking a guess, "deaths" used to be two separate columns: one under "with no symptoms" (2 deaths), and one under "with symptoms" (44 deaths). It was then decided that "deaths" should be its own top-level item, and someone decided that this was the best way to achieve that goal.

I can't find a way to make sense of the daily increases though, so this might be entirely wrong.
Van Gogh's style changed significantly after he got to France and saw nobody would spend a dime on dull Dutch paintings.
The book aside, in what world are we not a culture of takers or have not destroyed the natural equillibrium(s) of our own biosphere?
Flutter Tutorial: Pharmacy UI with AnimatedPositioned and Dismissible
You're referring to about whether a generic one-size-fits-all model will do well, but ML is full of bespoke models. It would be simple to build a neural network that can compute (and differentiate through) the max function to within some arbitrary epsilon, even though the most generic model (feed forward network) won't do great.
I want this in an XPS 13 too. I just bought an XPS 13 last year, running Ubuntu, and it's very nice, aside from the whine when it's plugged in.
My dad is German :). Did your dad have a desire to kill VC after going home?
Why reimplement waitlists later if this is legal?

Is the answer that it probably isn't legal and they're just hoping for the best here?
> 3. A neural network can solve problems that a human can solve with small-sized datapoints and little to no context

I like this rule, because it is actionable. Its easy to take a sample of your data, (in the case of images) lower the quality to 20x20 pixels and get see if you, or another person can do the classification task. Audio could be handled similarly.
I'm still waiting for the 3000-models to become affordable :s
Thanks for your posting. I am curious how many of the links you posted were chloroquinine (or HC) in vitro only, versus in vivo on mice - - versus in vivo on human subjects ?
"What is the cost of lies? It’s not that we will mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that, if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all. What can we do then? What else is left but to abandon even the hope of truth and content ourselves instead with stories? In these stories, it doesn’t matter who the heroes are. All we want to know is who is to blame."

I feel like we're watching Chernobyl play out in real time here.
Am I the only one who think that <switch> https://open-ui.org/components/switch is a usability disaster?

Distinguishing on/off state only by color is highly non-usable. Neither from a13y perspective nor for ordinary users. And to keep in mind LTR/RTL problems if someone rely on knob position.

What's wrong with classic check box for that purpose?
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Totally hear you on the need to make the elements styleable. That's the next phase of work that's being undertaken, specifically starting with <select>. Take a look at the talk that's linked from the article for a more in-depth explanation of the future phases.
>many of us developers have been practising social distancing long before anyone heard of COVID-19 ;-)

I would even argue that we invented the internet to solve exactly that problem, keeping our distance from other meatbags :-)
This website has really messed up mobile view (Safari on iPhone) for a UI project.
Had about a week of low productivity which I attribute to some personal turmoil / depression / loss of routine in the midst of the virus lockdown. After that, I've ramped way up and have been more productive than usual. I think this is because far less of my time is being wasted in pointless meetings and I have larger blocks of uninterrupted development time.
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This. I’ve been doing the same for over 10 years. No news papers, and TV, and it’s been wonderful.

I’ve regressed a bit with news subreddits under 30 minutes a day, and will read links from friends, but I’ve found that it’s mostly propaganda.

> There are a ton of people who will convince you that it's your moral duty to follow news as closely as possible. It's totally not worth it.

Most “news” is either PR or propaganda. So is “your duty” to keep consuming it.

Side note: I buy all the Australian newspapers during the Christmas holiday and force myself to go through it, and it’s always a reminder how it’s all a waste of time.
Err, Stripe?

I've worked in a startup which processed 10,000s of different transactions from various countries around the world, we dedicated a whole 0.01 person to handling it. I think they were up to around 7 o 8 countries when I left. Had one full time dev and me a few days a week.

As in it was checked now and then, and we had the occasional query once a month.

YAGNI for a business like meetup. I don't think you realize just how much off the shelf, fire and almost forget stuff there is out there now.
Easily implement the JSON-RPC 2.0 server for the Laravel
I absolutely hate them. 80% of the time it's confusing as to which way is on/off either because of design or because of the wording for that setting/option.
> What about those who say we’re stealing from authors & publishers?

Has any normal human being who is not a publisher or an author actually made this claim?
I don't see anything for III
> If Chloroquine works in the treatment of COVID-19 using a mechanism that is similar to the treatment of malaria then quinine will also work.

Why would we expect there to be any similarity between how a molecule affects the COVID-19 virus and how it affects the single-celled parasite that causes malaria? The two are very different.
What could do wrong if you use one that is not tested for safety?
I've tried, please read other reply for details. I've focused on positive things but hard to escape reality when you have noisy neibours who live a vampire lifestyle and a flat with the acoustics that I can hear a lightswitch downstairs turned on or off, let alone a raving crackhead.

I set up a audio surveillance system with contact mics I built, though took year to afford the parts and then not ideal, but budget so tight I have to buy reduced food items to scrape by. Yet even with that, and case of playing blatant issues to housing and police - they do nothing, hence only way I will get the gravatas this needed is to go public and for that I need help as I'm unable to do this without breaking down and reliving all the bad moments - bad side effect of a good memory and if anything, makes it worse.

But focusing only works so far - don't change anything and with everything else health wise, I don't have many good days and when I do, only able to do short bursts before fatigue kicks in or nerve damage pain, let alone the PTSD which can be triggered so easily that i'm totally unable to move forward and all attempts to do that have sadly been detrimental that they have only compounded the issue further.
Mac OS badly needed preemptive multitasking (and memory protection!), and got it when the NeXT bits were transformed into Mac OS X.
Just remembered, once you have income and presence in multiple countries you also need an accounting/legal team which can deal with that.
Ah yes, the "totally misleading title crowd," a well known group of people that everyone can easily identify.

> In a lot of businesses this really is not an issue.

I don't think anyone cares about the business in this situation. Individual privacy and freedoms are more important than shareholder value and micromanager snooping. When you force everyone to engage with their coworkers online, you need to find a way to preserve basic human rights -- like two individuals having a private conversation. Tech that obfuscates that, or exposes the contents of private conversations, should be called out for doing so.

Yes, we want business discussions to be open. But at the same time you have to remember that it's humans that conduct the business (as little as VCs may like that, because they're so hard to control and pacify), and that those humans have human needs and emotions, and will have private conversations wherever conversations can be had.
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> I think the problem of ventilator shortages has nothing todo with technology

isn't the problem economy of scale? at peak, the US needs 25k-30k ventilators for a few days, and then 90 days later we don't need anywhere near that number. where do we store them? how do we justify the expense? etc.

especially if 70-80% of people who still get a ventilator die [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22730622
Is this incompatible with a substantial crust, or can you have both in one loaf of bread? (I'm asking as a very novice baker.)
I took Pilates for a few years in Manhattan because it was extremely helpful for core (abdominal) strength.

I found that there is tremendous variation in the quality of the instructors, some of whom were very specific ("controlled") in movements, and others who were kind of a liability. Also, there were plenty of studios on ClassPass, but many of the top instructors only hold private lessons, so there was a much higher tier that I've never experienced.

Overall I recommend it for anyone looking to cross-train for strength and flexibility, but do try a bunch of studios to find the instructor that works best for you.
(Re)read Strunk & White every few years.
The pdfs can be timestamped.
I wasn't talking about a specific industry. And even if I was, a dozen passenger airlines go broke every two months? I'd like to request a citation on that one.

And I wrote more prudent, not “suddenly resilient”. Why don't you argue against what I actually wrote, rather then a straw man you made up?
The strategy would presumably be halve the minimum wage while simultaneously halving the cost of everything else.

Someone one 60% of the US minimum wage in China would theoretically [0][1] have a more comfortable lifestyle than a US minimum wage worker. In all likelihood this is because they can buy stuff extremely cheaply because their manufacturing costs are lower.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
You can collaborate through the native apps as well.
I'd argue that exceptionally smart people and capable people usually have financial safety early in their lives - and this kind of research has plenty of funding available. It's probably just that other problems or goals seem more interesting until you are personally affected.
Tried failed, tried failed.....it's case of I try, I get failed and withdraw to recover, rinse repeat that life is just not worth it, along with health etc the only thing keeping me going is to see justice once and for all.

Heck I even wrote to my government offering to be a human lab rat in the aid of finding solution to coronavirus, least that would be a honourable death, that desperate.