skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the side project for you or them? If its for you to learn and flex your creative muscle go for it. If it's for them, then maybe quit, reflect on the experience, and move on.
Gavin Newsom Calls California a “Nation State”
Covid-19 US Death Rate per Capita is steadily rising
Some Covid-19 Symptoms Are Turning Out to Be Atypical. Here's What We Know
> Meanwhile, the unsigned 32-bit count of seconds (also) since 1970 used in pcap output from tcpdump, and used universally throughout the financial industry with no hint of a move away from it, will not roll over until 2106. If they are still in use then, code will interpret small values as implying a time after 2106, rather than as an ancient historical time before 2000.

The format would need to change before 2106, because I'm pretty sure that the time is stored as a big-endian encoded value -- to expand it requires changing the format.

There really is nothing revolutionary about using an unsigned value, it just delays the problem by 80 years. Yeah, it's not something we'll have to worry about but our (great-)grandkids will.

> It is hard to know why anybody thought it so urgent to go to 64-bit seconds counters for internal use in the kernel.

There are many digital infrastructure projects which are planning to ship today's Linux for the next few decades (think things like traffic lights, as is the case in Japan). Fixing the 2038 problem now is necessary, because those deployments won't be updated until it's too late.

But more importantly, the UAPI used to represent time as a 32-bit integer so it's necessary to replace those syscalls with new versions -- and you need to give enough time for userspace to migrate. The same problem of deployed software equally applies here. And if you're going to fix the UAPI you might as well fix the problem entirely.
I have strong experience in Javascript applications and beautiful user interfaces.

I love to build great products.

I'm currently looking for part-time or full-time work.

Location: France, Paris
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Javascript, React, CSS, Unix
Résumé/CV: http://julesbou.net/cv.pdf (I need to update it, I've been working with the same company for the last 2.5 years).
Email: jules.bous at gmail
Website: http://julesbou.net
Github: https://github.com/julesbou
why did you link to the science daily and not any actual article? The linked page doesn't even link to an article, it links to a university press release. From 2004 no less. How am I supposed to verify that they are replicating published work as you say?
No. Almost every medium and large city in the United States was built because of its access to water and shipping. New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Houston, PORTland, Boston, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Charleston, and on and on and on.

Even smaller cities like Minneapolis, Buffalo, Sioux Falls, Albany, and hundreds more are located where they are because waterfalls and rapids made them the farthest extent of water travel before rapids or waterfalls or other hazards made the route too difficult.
good for you but i respectfully disagree. i have also used many video conferencing software, including zoom for many years.
Thanks. That's good feedback and I hope to build on that at some future point.

I very much appreciate the feedback I've gotten from people in this discussion.
I read that most govt projects are always ~40%late and over budget. This is because bad deadlines makes project manager look attractive and then you can always blame skipped deadline on change in requirement. And requirement always changes
I have also created many problems by implementing features - usually by weighing down a system with extra complexity that turns out to be of very limited value to users. From this extra complexity are born future bugs.

Some features are best left unimplemented.
They also use USDT and other tokens and currencies that were available long before Ethereum even existed
The coronavirus may sink the cruise-ship business
Yes, HN is toxic.
Investigation of measures during the first 50 days of Covid-19 epidemic in China
You can’t drop the binary label if your intent is to do something with the information. Ultimately there will be a “safety” threshold at which these materials would be allowed or not.

If the only statement is “we should generally be studying everything more, in an undirected manner with no stated purpose aside from the inherent value of simply knowing more about everything and letting each individual draw their own conclusions”, then yeah sure, but there’s nothing stopping this from happening now, aside from the fact that such a mission statement doesn’t provide particularly strong incentives.
Others

https://didtheyhelp.com/

https://www.lewiscotter.com/brands (more UK focused)
TypeScript to C++
> Using real neurons avoids several other difficulties that software-based neural networks have. For instance, to get artificial neural networks to start learning well, their programmers usually have to engage in a laborious process of manually adjusting the initial coefficients, or weights, that will be applied to each type of data point the network processes.

This seems silly. Once you've figured out these parameters once, it seems to me you can similate a single neuron reasonably well. Perhaps differences will emerge from networks.
I often wonder how big my data footprint is. I don't have any social media, and I cycle between a few handles on any publicly facing site I keep an account with. I suppose Google must have all of my search history associated with my main email address, but I use several different emails and browsers in my day to day.

I guess I'm wondering how good all of these companies are at sharing data between themselves. What kind of data is exposed when I use my primary email to log into Zoom or Spotify on a work computer, or my phone, or one of my relative's computers? To what extent do these companies coordinate and share this data?

It all just seems like a really big unknown to me, and I'm relatively tech savvy.
> And since async/await is more conceptually equivalent to a state machine than a coroutine or sync/blocking code, that severely limits how well we can reason about large promise chains.

I have to disagree with that. You can implement async/await using state machines, just as you can implement a loop using goto, but it's a more constrained model that's much easier to reason about than a fully general state machine or a fully general coroutine. The control flow still proceeds the way you expect - you still execute code from top to bottom, you still return once from every function call - you just yield at some points in it. You're not interleaving your control flow with some other function that you communicate with (like a generator), and you're certainly not treating suspended control flow as something to be copied or passed around (like a coroutine). It's a much simpler concept.
Don DeLillo deserves the Nobel
There is an aspect that is missing in this article's analysis: what counts as a COVID-caused death.

In Italy, for example, all in-hospital deaths of COVID-positive patients are recorded as COVID deaths.

If you're 85 years old, with emphysema, heart disease, diabetes, and COVID, and you die of acute respiratory distress... did COVID kill you?

In Italy, it did, 100%

In New York, it is up to the doctor who declares you dead, but it probably did.

In Germany, it most likely didn't.

That is not to say that Germany isn't doing a good job -- they are. They are doing a lot of testing, isolating, and contact tracing. They are also going full-speed-ahead with the experimental hydroxychloroquine/azithromycin treatment, offering it everyone without contraindications, starting almost from the beginning of the outbreak.

Both of those things contribute to the low death rate.

They are also detecting a higher percentage of cases, which automatically lowers the apparent mortality (since every country detects most of the hospitalizations, more testing means finding more inherently non-lethal cases, meaning more detected recoveries)
The title of the web browser on NeXT, however, must go to TBL's WorldWideWeb, world's first.

[1]: https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/WorldWideWeb.html
How can it be a security risk?
I would love to hear more how the COVID19 has exacerbated the business down period. I naively thought that enterprise software would not see a strong impact from COVID19 in the first 2-3 months.
I don't get it why people try very hard to get a job at FAANGs. Could it be because they would feel like they would become part of an elite, could it be because that once they have a FAANG company in their resume, they won't have to pass lengthy and stressful interviewing processes anymore and won't have to job hunt.

But there are many other software engineering jobs with at least as interesting problems to solve, at least as good payment, at least as good job security while being less stressful.

For me, hunting specifically a job at FAANG doesn't pay off.

I'd accept any job that meets my criteria of what I have to do, payment and stress level.
I'm guessing they're working on neuromorphic computing. Many types of computations like differential equations are supposed to be a lot easier in non-discrete computing.

Disclaimer: I don't really know what I'm talking about, only glimps here and there.
This is a misleading comment. You're saying you disagree with the author and stopped reading here:

> In fact, Hanson believes that “well over 90 percent” of human behavior can be explained by signaling. Whether or not you agree with that exact number, I think it’s an interesting thought experiment to look at a specific behavior and think about what the hidden signaling subtext of that behavior might be.

You do realize the author is citing someone else making the assertion you disagree with? The next sentence validates this interpretation. Your comment is a textbook straw man against the author.

Also, your bit about economists sounds incredibly inaccurate. No, economists didn't randomly realize human behavior needed to be taken into account one day. Since the beginning, the people studying economics already knew that it emerged out of the intricacies of human behavior. Simplifying a phenomenon for the purposes of modeling it is how we study things initially. We iterate on those solutions as we go.
This isn't a criminal proceeding. The people who "investigate" a civil case are the plaintiffs, who don't need to be motivated by evidence in order to start investigating.

The point of contention is to what extent someone starting to organize a strike should be evidence that they weren't fired for some other reason. But it's extraordinarily weak evidence because it's completely under the control of the party it's supposed to be evidence in favor of.

Anybody who knows they're about to get fired for some other reason, or who wants to be able to do something obnoxious without getting fired, could just start making noises about a strike and then claim that's why when it happens. But since anybody can do that, it doesn't prove anything.

It's like claiming your boss promised you a bonus, and using as evidence some fully-refundable travel tickets you claim to have bought expecting to have the money. You would do that if you really thought you had the money coming, but you would also do it if you're just trying to manufacture evidence. You have reason to do it either way, so you doing it proves nothing because it lacks any correlation with the result.
> Is obfuscation a type of authorisation?

No.

And even if you tried to argue that, the exploit was public on exploit-db for years, and therefore the expected security from the broken obfuscation is zero bits; so in this case, it would not count.

More pertinent:

> Authentication Not required (Authentication is not required to exploit the vulnerability.)
An international tribunal should judge China for 'biological warfare'
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> And if we was told to stay home because to prevent unionizing,

But the worker was placed on a 15 day paid leave to self quarantine because he stated he had direct contact with someone infected with covid19.

And then he not only broke his quarantine but also made it his point to go to work, potentially risking his colleagues.

Even if you argue that he did't carried covid19, that action is not justifiable, neither safety-wise nor legaly-wise.
British cabinet uses Zoom for first digital cabinet despite privacy risks
Overdiagnosis & misuse etc aside the number of people using amphetamines therapeutically may well outnumber your "unambiguous" cohort by a larger fraction than drinkers do alcoholics.

Tasteless comment.
In Germany too. Every death plus Positive sars-cov-2 test == death "from" corona
Editors believed their magazines could change lives
You can make self watering pots with 5 gallons buckets, their lid, a pipe, and an old T-shirt. But if you’re not going away, you can simply water every day.
True, but sometimes what got you here, won't get you there.
Was one of the first interns @ Omni back in 2013. I'm really sad to hear this, and I have only good things to say about Ken, Tim, and the whole Omni team.

Most folks are highlighting what feel like obvious flaws in the business model:

- "They charge too much for their software"

- "'Apple only' meant limited distribution"

- "SaaS apps are making desktop software obsolete"

Those all may be true; however, I think these miss the point as they aim for something that wasn't really Omni's goal. Omni succeeds because it builds amazingly high quality software targeted at a specific group of users, and charges a fair price for it (vs the vast majority of software that is of questionable quality and heavily subsidized by VCs and/or your attention). There are (were?) still enough people in the world willing to buy high quality software at that price point to sustain the company.

I think the other point missed is that, unlike what I feel like a lot of SV memes portray, Omni was designed to be an infinite game, "A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play"[1]. The company isn't trying to blitzscale its way to a billion dollar valuation and let the founders cash out after five years--it's designed to be the best place for the best indie MacOS/iOS devs to have fun building great apps for as long as possible. They've succeeded for a long time, and I have no doubt that even with the downsizing there is still room for the company to succeed in that goal

If you're looking for awesome macOS/iOS devs, these really are the best of the best, and you'll be lucky to have them. Given that a big chunk of the team was also support and QA, there are likely a few of them available as well, and definitely check them out if you're in the market for those.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_and_Infinite_Games

Fun story: the first Omni app I ever shipped was OmniKeyMaster, which let you swap your Mac App Store license key for an Omni App Store license key. Within an hour of submission, Apple pulled it from the App Store (for obvious reasons). Always fun to have your hand slapped a week into an internship!

Second fun story: speaking to the nature of the company... as part of the internship offer, Omni agreed to pay for our housing, and ended up renting the five of us a house in Wallingford. Turns out the house ended up being a scam (we all showed up to move in and someone else was living in it), and so they put us up in the Residence Inn in South Lake Union for two weeks until they got us furnished apartments right next door to the office. It probably cost them a hell of a lot, but to them it was the right thing to do and they take care of their employees (even though they had just hired us). This company does its best to do right by its people, so I know this must have been an incredibly difficult decision for them to make.
> You realize why he wanted to organize a strike right? Amazon knew that one of his co-workers was infected, and said and did nothing.

If he took health and safety so seriously then he wouldn't be breaking his quarantine after he claimed he had direct contact with someone carrying the virus to drive up to work potentially exposing all his co-workers to the virus.
That seems to be it. But I don't get why. It's like wanting to join a gang or mafia: you have to prove how dedicated you are to join a particular organization.

It should be a job like any other.
Alcoholics know. SomeoneAp doing that in a zoom conference wouldn't upset someone as much as smelling it
All I want is to turn the radio volume up/down with a knob and turn it off/on with a big physical button. Is that so much to ask?
I see this said sometimes, and frankly I doubt it. A mediocre performer at Google or Facebook with 3 years of experience is pulling in 250K+. At Amazon and Microsoft, that's a bit lower but still over 200K. And there's upside for a higher performer.

The only places that match that kind of progression are bay area startups/public unicorns and quant finance and hedge funds. And for a competent person, that growth doesn't stop for another few years.
Presumably Tinder would benefit then from a rating system (it may already have one - I am not in that social milieu).

If one wants to have Tinder Hot badge you need to go on five dates and be rated 5 stars for each. You would be signalling you are attractive and others think so. (I expect this is already done through some count or left / right swipe
ratio)

(I can see that leading to some horrible coercion issues so I would oppose it but you get this idea)
Am I the only one who thought this article was about Apache Tomcat?
whats the cmd to exit vim3?
In Praise of Clutter
The only winning move is not to play.

But even by quoting that, I'm still playing (albeit by attempting to jump out into the meta game).

So the only ones who are actually not playing are the ones who are clicking away from this vapid comment page and moving on with their lives.
Not for show of solidarity but for practical reasons, India has realized the advantages of its vast network of neighbourhood mom-n-pop shops in these times. It is time that people take note of this and start supporting local businesses even if they can cost a bit more. Of course it is understandable to order online due to lack of local availability or very significant price differential on non-trivial purchases but if these small businesses close, then the impact would be great in times like this.
I've used omnigraffle on and off for 15 years. I can't quite put my finger on it, but something about the UI seems to shout "Mac OS" (or maybe more accurately Cocoa).
It looks like the flying wing! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_YB-49

My grandpa worked on drones for Northrup from the late 60s to the late 80s, and he loved the flying wing design (not used on his drone though). He built op-amp based control systems, and flew jet drones with oscillators and large portable field plotters.
You can imagine a doctor or nurse bringing in sub-standard equipment that then causes an issue for a patient.
They seem to be moving to a subscription model: https://www.omnigroup.com/omnifocus/buy/
In terms of clinical trials, you can run a non-superiority trial. They aren’t run as part of the drug approval process but can be and are run by clinicians and health services.
Ah ok, so if I had used “packaging” instead of “carton” I’d have satisfied your censorious zeal? Someone else already mentioned this study, I’m sure you’ll entertain yourself finding other factual errors within:

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/new-coronaviru...
I don't know. Would it be a problem if that was a criminal offense?
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Expectations are handled when you sign employment contract. You are free to negotiate anything. I live in EU country with similar laws and still employees/employers negotiate additional things which are are not written in the contract (because law forbids it). American freedom - its hard to imagine somebody complaining because the person has more individual choices
First off, this is about the world taking a downturn than your performance. Rather than focusing on traditional leadership, focus more on listening and teaching. The higher ups usually want someone who actively listens, asks good/productive questions, and is able to teach the younger team members how to execute and avoid the mistakes you've learned over 15+ years.
Web apps have always been inferior to mobile or desktop apps. Sluggish, less featured and dependent on the network at least part of the time.

Moving to the web would be a downgrade for most of their products. Maybe OmniPlan could be some on premise SaaS, but otherwise it doesn't make sense.
Covidien at the time already sold a $5000 portable ventilator, which was never rejected by the FDA. The prospective Newport ventilator was rejected for neonatal use, which was a requirement of their BARDA contract.
This lockdown has already guaranteed many more deaths due to poverty.

Every day it continues, more are added.

But, there is no up-to-the-minute tracker with bright red body counts. There are no stacks of coffins. There are no sob stories.

Because the people who will die because of the lockdown might not die for years yet. A family that was doing OK, now both parents have lost their jobs, one will remain unemployed for years. The family becomes poor, eats lower-quality food for the next 20+ years.

Kids that would have been healthy now get diabetes in their 30s, heart disease in their 40s, and ultimately die of heart attacks in their early 50s, who otherwise would have loved to 80.

Or, kid that used to have a healthy home environment now does not. Gets involved in gangs and drugs. Overdoses at 26. Or is killed in gang violence. Or ends up in prison. It takes three generations for that family to recover.

Millions of families that were not on this path a month ago are now five steps down it -- and every day, some unknowable number of these tragedies goes from possible to probable, or from probable to all-but-unavoidable.

But in virtually all of the cases, even after the fact, you'll never be able to prove that it wouldn't have happened but for the lockdowns.

So, we get to pretend the number is zero, instead of unknowable masses.
How is shit like this showing up at the top of Hacker News?
Kconfig-hardened-check: Check the hardening options in the Linux kernel config
That was supposed to happen any moment now for the past 10+ years. The reason it didn't is because web apps are clunky and less dependable.
There's a similar deal going on with Apple.

They still host a bunch of old classic Mac/Apple II files, but they're not longer browsable, you have to find old links to them.

E.g, here's the first floppy image to install MacOS System 7.5.3 http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Soft...

Their support site also still has a bunch of articles from the 90's in the database, you can still get them to show up in the searches on their own support site, but they're not browsable and hence not indexed by Google.

Anyone need help getting HyperCard 1.2.5 working on their Macintosh IIfx with the NuBus Macintosh Display Card 8*24 GC? https://support.apple.com/kb/TA46247?viewlocale=en_US&locale...
Dr. Siegel: Too much Covid-19 mathematical modeling spreading panic [video]
You can't prioritize some content without deprioritizing other content, which effectively amounts to censorship.

This would imply HN "censors" the front page. Of course that's nonsense. Sometimes sorting by an algorithm is just sorting.

In the case of HN it's up votes, and in the case of Google it's a basket of hundreds of criteria (including up votes if you think of clicks on results as voting). Google probably does have some "censorship" rules like filtering out illegal content, but I'd be surprised if they're not impartial about everything else.
Make sure to sure to check the issues as well.
So zoom sucks and you've tested the alternatives but don't offer one?