skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Meanwhile people just assume Japan's numbers must be honest because... why?

Maybe because modern Japan doesn't have a track record of mass censorship and disappearing people who oppose governmental line?

Chinese gov is trying to blame US as source of the virus.
I think Trump only dreams of being 'creative' on that level.

That said, I am not defending or justifying gov of Japan. This can be incompetence or malicious data tampering to look better.
It is? I guess I'm in a special boat being a developer and being able to run Linux at work since 2012, but even on the corporate Windows/Mac workstations, I don't think I've been at a company that's installed any type of spyware (other than standard remoting tools used by help desk and controlled with Group Policies).
MacOS may have been a little late. Windows NT, OS/2, Linux did preemptive multitasking since beginning of 90s, even AmigaOS had it in the 80s.
Norwegian privacy law.
I have moved from "solutions architect" to "WFH consultant" at the behest of my clients.

The problem I am seeing is that many managers have NO idea how their employees actually work. If you take your average MacDonalds manager they can (mostly) work every station in the joint and then know how to do MORE things. Your average corporate middle manager has NO idea what their staff does or how.

To be quite honest, most of these middle managers are not only at a loss as to what they should be doing but are also dealing with the isolation far worse than "staff". I have come to realize that a lot of their time was spent on social aspects of the workplace and they have been removed.

I have one client who wants to snapshot staff at their computers, and another who is ready to cut middle management fat... we live in interesting times.
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> better than the access I had when I was in graduate school

How did you function as a graduate student without access to conference proceedings?

> better than I have currently as a standard ACM member

I think that's only if you de-select the option for the library, which people often do if they have institutional access (which will be almost all academic and industrial researchers I guess.)
Ergo use cases: safe, simple financial contracts
Anything from Salinger. Go beyond Catcher in the Rye. Nine Stories; Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters; Franny and Zooey.

Hemingway's short fiction really kicked off a lot of reading for me. Men Without Women is a nice little collection.

A couple others to go deeper on ... Stephen Kind and Roald Dahl. King has many incredible novelas: The Body (Stand By Me); Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (Shawshank Redemption); Hearts in Atlantis. Likewise, Dahl, known more for his children's books wrote some adult fiction, short stories.

I think it is less about the book and more about when in your life you pick it up.
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Ballistic submarines operate entirely different than fast attack submarines. The article is consistent from my understanding of how UK and Russian ballistic submarines operate.
Downvoted maybe because spelling and capitalization errors?

Edit: Holy crispy, it's just an idea of mine, not an assertion or endorsement or confirmation. Geeze.
This should get you started; just some links I had laying around:

Connection Machine Lisp: fine-grained parallel symbolic processing; Steele, Hillis

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/319838.319870

I'm biased because this one is effectively "What if we make an APL Lisp?"

Design of a LISP-based microprocessor; Steele, Sussman

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/359024.359031

This one is one of the hundreds that came out of the Mead/Conway book. Basically, it's a LISP-based VLSI chip.

Turtles and defense; Sobalvarro, Klotz

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1056602.1056608

As 'donhopkins put it:

It was Leigh Klotz's sarcastic response to a Defense Department questionnaire to Terrapin about how their technology could be used to kill people.

He proposed deploying a swarm of thousands of LOGO turtles to crawl around the battlefield in mesmerizing geometric patterns, and stab the enemy with a quick succession of PENUP and PENDOWN commands (proving once again that the pen is mightier than the sword).

(For more information:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... )
75% of U-boat crew died in combat, primarily because Donitz never changed their cryptography and gave them tons of radio traffic to decipher.

"Radio traffic compromised his ciphers by giving the Allies more messages to work with. Furthermore, replies from the boats enabled the Allies to use direction finding (HF/DF, called "Huff-Duff") to locate a U-boat using its radio, track it and attack it.[64][65] The over-centralised command structure of BdU and its insistence on micro-managing every aspect of U-boat operations with endless signals provided the Allied navies with enormous intelligence"
Cubicles got so much hate because they were worse than private offices that came before them. Now open floor plans are getting hate because they’re worse than cubicles so rose-colored glasses makes cubicles the nostalgic dream.
welcome to my world.
> The big difference is that the chines communist party is actively suppressing messages And prosecuting people who go against the governments narrative.

Unlike the USA?
> I think less than 5% of comments on open-office design, that I have ever seen, were positive.

It's basically taboo to say anything positive about open office spaces online. There are many, many legitimately terrible open office workspaces in the world. Suggesting that open offices aren't always bad feels like an attack on those who are miserable in their open office. So it's safer to just never bring it up.

In the real world, a lot of people do enjoy open office style environments. They're probably the same people who went to their University's library to study in college or joined a study group so they could sit with others who were working on the same topic. Many (not all, obvious) college students choose these open, social study environments organically during college. It's reasonable to expect that they'd carry their preferences into the working world.

I have a theory that the more someone prefers isolation and being alone, the more likely they are to participate in internet comment sections and online forums. As a result, the deeper you go into internet comment sections, the more unanimously people rail against open office floor plans.

In a perfect world, we'd have a mix of companies offering both working styles and people could choose their preferred style up front. Anecdotally, I worked for a company that advertised private offices as a perk, but nearly zero of our candidates seemed to care. People tend to choose whichever company pays the best, regardless of the working conditions. I can understand why companies choose to save money on open office floorplans.
As an outsider. F# seems not to get the full blessing. ReasonML is a big thing at Facebook. F# kind of keeps you on the Microsoft stack. Reason has both OCaml based native and JS based interpreted. Reason integrates very well with JS-land. React bindings are maintained by FB itself. Bit-by-bit transitions from JS to Reason are feasible.

Fable, I had to take a look again, but it seems a lot more mature then I remember it was a few years back.
This may be hard for those of us in tech to comprehend; not everyone can function without having a boss to keep them 100% accountable.

In 2004, I worked for a startup and we had beer in the fridge. We'd have an occasional afternoon where we would grab them. No big deal.

Most startups I worked at embraced a similar attitude.

Finally I worked for a company that went a step further and had beer on tap, but had rules, no beer until 5p M-Th, and 4p Friday.

It was foreign to me, but understood that in other divisions, the types of employees (like inside sales) were essentially entry-level roles.

Many of us in industry are used to flex hours, and the ability to remotely (including WFH), that we forget that for many others, it's novel. Seeing "asses in chairs" was a proxy for diagnosing productivity deficiencies, and bosses thrust into this new paradigm of working haven't necessarily picked up the skill sets to effectively manage remote teams.
Same in Iceland.
In theory h264 or WebM should be a decent alternative already. You can also get larger color palettes in GIF by exploiting the ability of frames to have their own palettes and layer on top of eachother.
I think it is people who control purse strings. One big problem is that majority of today's management is indulged in a bad faith argument of collaboration and innovation as benefit of open office. Management can own up and say its gonna save them money and it will continue with open office policy.

At that point employees may not like it but it would make clear that they need to put money where their mouth is and demand a separate cube etc at work as part of job offer. Not getting it would be like so many other compromises that we make in life and has to be endured.
The idea itself is sound, having an agreed specification allows others to build tools around this specification. (i.e. auto-generation, integration). In theory, this makes development easier. OpenAPI achieved this and is now widely used in various tools including Amazon API Gateway.

The types of diagrams you listed above are great for describing software in useful ways, but none of them are rigid enough to spec out an async API.

I still need to review this spec to fully understand it, so I'm not promoting AsyncAPI. I like the motivation behind it.

edit: typo
This is illegal pretty much at least everywhere within the EU.
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I think this is a case of someone simply scanning various reports into the website--doing it the easiest way possible, not the right way.
Interestingly enough, our society worships victims that either could not be helped, or that would take a lower-than-median place in the social ladder after the help arrived. It's like people feel better when they hear about someone who's life is more miserable than theirs.

Asperger dude who could become extremely productive and wealthy once he assigns the right priorities to sleep, noise reduction, and seeing through other people's bullshit, doesn't fit this pattern at all.
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FWIW, the YT video you recommend has a lot of interesting info from the person who’s reportedly Korea’s foremost expert. Among other things, he mentions cases of reinfections.

The reinfection debate has been murky. Is it just a testing artifact, etc? Notably, he did not mention any of these alternate explanations. He stated rather plainly that they have seen cases of reinfection.
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I think the idea that larger droplets are required for an infection is congruent with an R0 of about 3. If super small droplets would be sufficient then a single person would easily infect pretty much everybody taking a bus with her/him together. R0 would be much larger.
Very much unlike the USA.
What prevents shareholders from just selling their shares? Why does the company have to be the buyer?

A company generating demand for its own stock does not create value, it creates liquidity. I hope you understand the difference.

As for the solution, I think we're on the same page. Government debt should not be used for creating liquidity for shareholders holding a shitty asset.
> with the possible exception of singles who don’t have roommates.

And those who were already working remote. I do, and I've actually found it easier at meetings, where I'm not the only one on the screen anymore.
Knowing Japan, I bet some poor freshly graduated but elite sod in the health ministry was, out of the blue, told by his boss "here's a bunch of reports from different prefectures. Make a report out of them." So he goes off and try to make sense of the data, which is why you see those magic and unexplained equations in the report.

The kicker is the most complex computer thing he ever did in his life was that Word presentation in university. HTML? Isn't that something you write by hand?
That’s probably because your perception is that it is a derailment.
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Hey there,

I am looking into using more secure & private software.

Sources that recommend or audit different software are high appreciated! Also high-level guides about the subject would be very helpful as well.

I am already going through privacytools.io, other recommendations are welcome!

Cheers!
"privacy" is not a crime, you need to be more specific. I would maybe understand if the employer was taking pictures of the employee with a webcam, but they were taking screenshots of the machine owned by the company - how is there any expectation of privacy if you're using company equipment?
I think it depends on the nature of your job. If you regularly need to interact verbally with colleagues, cubes are kind of a pain.

I forget where I saw this but there was a company that had set up what were basically "team offices" so teams that worked closely together each had their own closed room where they worked, so they could collaborate in their own manner.

Quiet when they needed it, loud when they needed it, and on their own schedule.

That seems like a good middle.
This is a false equivalency. China is a totalitarian state that quite literally controls information; Japan and the US are not in any real sense. About six months ago, on a different HN topic, I said this about China's claim that foreigners committed crimes and thus couldn't leave the country:

I call it “crying wolf in reverse”: The problem with being a totalitarian state that falsely imprisons people on a regular basis is that you’ve lost all moral authority when it comes to arresting people for actual crimes. If you’ve falsified evidence, conducted show trials and made a mockery of rule of law before, why should anyone believe you when you say it’s a real crime this time?

We're seeing a similar situation with regards to their Covid-19 reporting. Is it necessarily inaccurate? No, but lying about everything else doesn't exactly lend us to trust you this time.
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I can't find it at the moment, but I recall seeing a report from China that 80% of COVID-19 patients placed on ventilators still ended up dying. I assume that's not the case in the US? (does anyone have stats on this yet?)

I also recall seeing (again, can't find it right now) a scientist concerned about the potential for widespread usage of ventilators to rapidly increase the prevalence antibiotic resistant bacteria.

My point is, having as many ventilators as we need is good, but it's even better to not need the ventilators in the first place. I hope we don't fixate on ventilators too much at the expense of mitigation and other treatments.
You just ate the CEO of the company doing prion research.
There are wild accusations against Chinese government, when in fact we now see that they put the most stringent measures to avoid the escalation of this virus, which in fact they succeeded in doing, at least inside China. On the other hand, I live in one of the early focus of the virus in the USA, and the federal and local authorities told us to just wash hands, avoid handshakes, and continue our normal life. Against a virus that is treated in other countries with hazmat suits! In my opinion THIS is criminal, on the same level of what happened in Chernobyl, knowing everything that we knew about the crisis situation in China and Korea. Now the virus is out of control in the US and the government still has the nerve to tell us that this is the fault of someone else.
So, forget slowing the epidemic, screw the healthcare workers that'll get the brunt of the caseloads, and the overloaded hospitals, screw the ones who will die in excess of what we can actually prevent, just because you feel it's inconvenient.

Thanks for self-identifying. I'll be sure to exclude you from anything I can think of, since you're willing to sacrifice random strangers for your own comfort.
That’s a lab test where they first aerosolize the virus and then spray it into the air and measure how long it lasts.

It doesn’t necessarily reflect what actually happens when someone breathes or coughs.
The alternative isn’t open plan but an office with window and daylight. Cubicles are a little better than open plan but in the end they are still crap.
In Dutch law and pretty sure German law an employee has the right to privacy. This extends to the personal use of company supplied equipment.
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You can't do that because of the rvalue problem I mentioned above. Only (++C)-- and (--C)++ are allowed!
I am casually stating that it's time for observation science and engineering to evolve. StarLink isn't the only obstacle to earth based observation; siting requirements can constrain where observatories can be built, staff and equipment having to be colocated (sometimes in remote geographic locations), relations with local stakeholders can be fraught with peril [1], all avoided by lifting to space.

Will it be challenging to design observatories for space that were previously designed to be built on Earth? Certainly! Should we shy away from the challenge as an advancing civilization? Absolutely not.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Meter_Telescope#Approva...
I use to hate cubicles, but that was until I discovered open workspaces. For the past ten years, I've been in open workspace hell at 5 different jobs/contracts. I fucking miss the cubicle!

I've been living in cities and I think that is a big factor. Real estate is expensive. But make no mistake, open workspaces are miserable places. Cubicles still suck, but they're a massive step up from open floor plans.
This isn't reddit or imgur.
Why would you expect it to behave like it was?

It's literally in the guidelines:
>Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
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Surprisingly, as a person complaining about gullibility of other people, I really don't know how you came to the conclusion that everyone believes Japan's numbers.

Almost every article I've read that has mentioned Japan's low rate has raised the concern the numbers are faked. They highlight that it has a high rate of smoking, lots of travel to/from china, and very crowded cities. Each of these raises the risk. So I'd say reporters have been skeptical.

On the other hand, China is not just suspected of lying, but have been proven to have lied and suppressed the disease. In fact, that was the whole reason the disease got out of hand in the first place, as it's now clear the disease started spreading at least as early as December, and possibly even as early as October of last year. If China had properly not suppressed the information, the world might have been able to get a start on preparing vaccines and equipment and we could have avoided the current mess.
No, just no. If a boss can't communicate deliverables and verify that these are getting finished, they are too incompetent to manage their domain. They shouldn't be scraping personal information off screencaps, video or audio feeds. This doesn't even seem like it ought to be legal.

Workers are there to do a job, not have every personal detail monitored and tracked. Should the show password feature be turned off in UIs given how much sensitive information shows up on a screen? How much control of people's lives can a free society hand over to shareholders before it's no longer considered humane?
Remember that in at least some social classes, women still have much lower earning potential than men.

The traditional dynamic of the breadwinner husband who works a job that pays relatively well, and the wife who is a homemaker or works part-time for much lower pay, is definitely not dead. For an older woman without much education and job experience, the prospect of striking out on her own economically can be quite bleak.
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I'm interested in running some analysis on posts/comments, and I would prefer not to scrape the site with a bot. Does HN offer a periodic database dump? If not, can it be considered? I'm sure I'm not the only one who would be interested in it.
Chinese is not a race, it's a nationality. No one is being racist. Viruses are often named after the countries in which they originated. This is nothing new.
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Thats why I based it on a version before python-Levenshtein was even added to the project. The Levensthein part is just the normal levenshtein stuff that is a standard task at university I suppose, so it was definetly faster to implement this on my own instead of reading ugly C code. From my tests it is about as fast as the one used by python-Levenshtein (a little bit slower), but therefore I can read it ...
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a long winded way of saying that you have to have vesting. It solves so many problems.
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I live in the EU and I cannot think of a single law where the employeer cannot take screenshots of the machines they own. I'll be happily proven wrong though.
> The radius of distribution is smaller (6 feet)

The article says that 45 people out of a group of 60, in a large room with chairs spaces at least a foot apart and twice as many chairs as people, all became infected without any physical contact.

The 6' radius limit is nonsense for this disease.
I'm not convinced that's actually true though, is what I mean. The big drawback of cooperative is just that a single process can monopolize resources, which in the singlecore days mean the system became unresponsive and you had no way to recover from it. That isn't really true now with multicore. As long as the OS has a core to work on it can terminate or otherwise deal with misbehaving processes.

Again, this is based on my admittedly limited understanding, but I haven't yet seen good reasoning why pre-emptive is still preferred.
I am going to add anecdote from my little corner. Last week all of our team ( 10+ people total ). Not terrible and it happened before so we were good. All of a sudden, vendor suffered a breach. We went into disaster mode and survived the day. That day was Friday. In its infinite wisdom senior management tried to bring one volunteer on a Sunday to the office so that they can manually do the things we did remote on Friday. No one volunteered, because it was a retarded idea. It was clear they wanted a live body to yell at. Friday was that kind of day. They eventually backed off.

But senior management here is old and unwilling to let go of control they thought they had so far.

Out of completeness, my pc is riddled with control crap running in background often slowing me down. Some of it makes sense ( why are you moving all this data ? ; why are looking up marijuana dispensary address ). Most of it does not fall under reasonable category..

So what people do? They adapt. They know their work pcs are riddled with crap so they spend ridiculous amount of time on their pocket computers instead..

It is a weird arms race.