skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your general point is valid, but I can't help pointing out that knitting may not belong in that second list as much as the others.

Computational textile work is a niche, but fascinating, area of research. Knitting and crocheting are highly technical crafts, and there are opportunities to use modern computational approaches, including deep learning, in them.

Deep Knitting: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.02752.pdf

I'm not going to read this paper in detail, it may not be a great example of a successful deep learning application - but at least it's not an absurd idea.

Maybe not surprising if you're aware of the place of the Jacquard loom in the history of computer science.
> Buy back shares, return capital to shareholders, and let shareholders invest in something else.

Or GE could invest in increasing wages, particularly for the lowest-paid workers. Return capital to the actual producers of the capital.
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Yeah and you're guilty until proven otherwise practically.

This in a system that still has a death penalty is quite unsettling.
Who assumes Japan's numbers are honest? We all know they've been cooking their numbers for the stupid olympics.

At this point all I can believe are South Korea's numbers. They have transparent government unlike China, they have tested extensively unlike the US, Italy and Spain, and their climate is similar to the US unlike Taiwan and SE Asian countries.
Instacart workers consider nationwide strike
Also cheaper because cubicle scaffolding costs $$$.
It's a derailment because the people bringing this up aren't actually organizing towards helping homeless men. These two issues, women's shelters and men's shelters, aren't actually in contradiction with each other but the commenter I was responding to is treating it that way.

The reason women's shelters exist is because activists in the 60's and 70's decided to build them and gain support, and eventually fought for funding. What is stopping any of you from actually building a movement to help homeless men, instead of complaining about the activists who try to help women in need of housing?

Why complain about the activists who focus on women's shelters because they're not ALSO tackling the issue of men's shelters, when you yourself could prioritize the issue of men's shelters?

Edit: The people who are dedicating their lives to helping homeless men do not see women's shelters as competition, they see women's shelters as valuable resources for knowledge with lots of carryover (such as approaches for addressing mental illness, drug addiction, and poverty). If you yourself have zero interest in putting in real effort towards a solution outside of opportunistic internet comments, why should anyone listen to you?

Take the lead, do some research, and build something.
Thank you for the detailed feedback. I like the idea of grouping certain screenshots based on tags and origin. I wanted to put out the initial iteration and see what works before putting in more time. I am also working on an extension that can interface with the desktop app to provide finer details about the origin of a screenshot. Also thinking about optional backup for folks who want it. Thank you once again and I'll be sure to update on the next iteration.
Students built this in 2010.
It definitely existed in some form by the late 90's. I recall very basic surveillance and remote control software being installed on school machines back then.
If you know & recommend any other remote/online/virtual startup programs, please feel free to contribute to this list!
This 99% number does not mean what people think it means. The Japanese prosecution system is a pipeline that strongly filters out unlikely-to-be-convicted cases from the very beginning. Long before you are convicted, you might not even be arrested, or your case gets dismissed earlier in the pipeline. Here is a video, with references, from a relatively trustworthy source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OINAk2xl8Bc
What's with European museums and robbers? I've rarely or never heard Asian or American museums get robbed.
Microsoft aims to win back consumers with new Microsoft 365 subscriptions
My recommendation:

A) Audit your base machine for any suspicious processes. Most of the time, something will stick out. For Windows boxes, pay attention to the Startup/Autorun sections of the Windows Registry/Group Policy. On *Nix boxes, either unit or init scripts; audit your launched plists.

B) If you do suspect information exfiltration/monitoring; cripple/subvert the sensors/information stream. Exact details will vary depending on the nature of the spyware. A hardware bug is harder to do deal with than a software one, and some forms of software bugging are more difficult to circumvent than others.

C) If it is really overt and obnoxious; organize with coworkers. The only thing that'll eventually get the message across to unscrupulous and invasive employers is collective organized resistance. One or two or up to 100 depending on size they may not give a damn, but when half the workforce is up in arms, there will have to be a carefully considered response.

D) Always be ready to leave. Seriously. Particularly in today's day and age. I don't think it's natural at first, as we all at some level I think hope that our employer has some intrinsic loyalty toward us as an employee; but that really isn't the case at all culturally anymore. Don't let it hold you back from doing your best, but always keep in mind they are making more off you than you them; otherwise it isn't a business that's going to be staying around for very long.
Thanks for passing this along. I also commented on the relevant Chromium issue [1] (as well as the relevant Firefox issue [2]). It should be a simple fix, since the transformation matrices just need to be updated.

Edit: I should have looked at the Chromium issue again today. It's already been fixed!

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=100370...
[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1564993
Helvetica: The game-changing font that rules the world
If you can’t learn to write English keep reading. Being unable to capitalize or punctuate correctly is a wonderful heuristic for not trying to communicate. There are many more native speakers who are typing for their own benefit than non-natives who can profitably read this forum but can’t write.
It's your employer's hardware. It's legal for companies to oversee the work their employees are doing.
If I gave up on those I would find another career. They are the whole point. Flow is 100% of what I like about software engineering.
https://prisma.io is a good choice, I know successful companies scaling while only running a single instance.
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If you're going to parrot this factoid without context, please see the rebuttal here:

https://youtu.be/OINAk2xl8Bc
Japan's numbers are probably low because of limited testing. Still somewhat reasonable to compare against countries that also have limited testing.

Regarding the presentation of the data, I've seem enough poorly formatted presentations over the years to say that is unique to Japan.
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I've been doing some digging for the last hour or so, haven't been able to find any reputable sources talking about it at all either.

Seems that you can longer delete your account from the app anymore, you need to email support.

No word from Life on Air Inc nor Epic Games yet either.
Tokyo was mostly closed this weekend. IIRC by government request. TV shows showed all of Ginza closed. I walked down to Shibuya on Saturday, had one errand to run, it was mostly empty. Every chain store I passed was closed with a notice in the window. All the stores on the 4th floor of Mark City were closed. The basement food stores were open but the number of people were ~10th normal.

I agree though that until recently things were pretty open. Maybe they were open again today. I walked by a coffee shop and people were in it. The local Target like store was busy but main street in front of it was dead compared to normal.
You can still wind up with distributed state errors. Ex:. User requisitions a billable resource, request hits node A. User immediately terminates billable resource, hits node B. Requisition request has a long latency (and termination request does not). So in the billing system, there is a negative time associated with the resource.
> Given the absence of fees for using NextDNS

https://nextdns.io/pricing
Photo of the artwork is missing from apnews. You can find one here - https://news.artnet.com/art-world/thieves-stolen-van-gogh-ma...
It looks Tokyo is starting to have an out break

https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-nw-tokyo-olymp...
> because he couldn't walk up behind me to see me working, he secretly installed a program on my computer that took a screenshot every 30 seconds

> The irony was that I was probably the most productive person in that office (in my humble opinion).

The easiest and the most efficient way to ruin my productivity is to look at my screen. I can't work (nor can I pee - a funny coincidence, that's called "paruresis") when somebody is watching.
I've made a neural network where you feed it a problem and it will tell you if a neural network will solve it. I call it a Neural decider. Getting weird results when I feed it to itself though.
huh .. OpenVPN is UDP by default but you can force it to TCP (we had to do that at one University site that would only open limited tcp ports for us).

I also discovered Wireguard cannot bind to a specific adapter or IP address if you have multiple address on a server. That might not seem like as a big a deal since it only responds to fully authenticated packets, but it does mean that outgoing packets could be leaving from a different IP address than incoming packets.

It's weird that something that's now making it into mainline can't do this very simple kind of bind that almost every other userlevel service, and OpenVPN, can do.
This is an important issue. Because the WHO feels it must defer to China in pretending that Taiwan doesn't exist, they are presenting a distorted view of the pandemic statistics by, for example, including the Taiwan numbers as part of China’s.

Here is a top official of the WHO pretending that he can’t hear a question from a reporter about Taiwan, then refusing to answer the question that he faked that he didn’t hear:

https://twitter.com/ezracheungtoto/status/124386977441046937...
This comment is spot on. The few times I brought up open offices (which I don't like) with my coworkers, most of them favored them. They liked being able to easily have a brief chat with someone, and generally having a more social feel to the office. They worried that in an environment with private offices, it would be harder to interrupt someone with a question, and that collaboration would suffer as a result. I feel like I almost never read this perspective on Hacker News, but it's very common in the real world.
WireGuard on Linux has always been implemented as a kernel module (a very small one at that). If you've used it on Linux, you've used the code that has been included in Linux 5.6.

This is about the code being merged upstream into the main kernel repository which means that it'll likely be built-in to lots of distribution kernels and will no longer have the second-class status that most out-of-tree kernel modules have.
In the EU there is. For instance the company can't normally access directories or emails clearly labelled as "private". Monitoring can occur but it's pretty tightly regulated.

See for instance https://gdpr.report/news/2017/11/17/5383/

> * Employers can monitor employees’ emails at work but need to approach this with caution and careful consideration.

> * Follow the ICO Code and 29 WP opinion, including conducting a DPIA prior to undertaking any monitoring, considering whether it is possible to achieve the objective through less instructive means and ensuring policies clearly notify employees that monitoring takes place, why and that the content of emails may be viewed.

> * If emails are identified as or are clearly “personal” do not open unless there is a real risk of serious harm to the business and, where possible, inform the employee in advance that the content may be viewed.

I find that perfectly reasonable IMO. You're not your company's property. Your boss can't put a camera in the corporate bathroom's stall just because he owns it.
In related news, the existence of biscuits and triscuits hints at a third food known as monosquits.
Phil's series is meant for learning rather than production use. So sometimes he takes a "shortcut" in one post then removes the restrictions or workarounds later.
One thing I haven't seen anyone mention is that the longer this goes on, the more it will reduce the credibility of a formal education.

In theory you can move classes online but in practice this usually results in massive cheating.

Another consequence of this might be fewer internships due to a reduced headcount and on going uncertainty during the pandemic.

So while the graduating class of 2020 will have a rough time, if universities continue online for another year, it'll be even harder for the class of 2021.
Where I work there is less focus on micromanaging people's time and more focus on results. Having your activity micromanaged at that level is mentally exhausting. When I was in college and had no skills whatsoever I used to do Lionbridge/Leapforce which had you do all kinds of stuff like rank search results, check videos for nudity, etc. They had an extension that would monitor all your activity and if you stopped and got distracted it would impact your rating/health and you could eventually be fired (not sure if firing is the right word its a gig type thing). IMO this is very nerve wracking and not mentally healthy for workers to experience. Treat people like adults and on average they will act like adults. You will always have underperformers regardless of whether you are micromanaging their time or not. Sometimes I want to take a break to play with my dog or decompress after a long meeting. Everyone should have the same right to do so. Ironically, archaic notions about micromanaging workers time works against employers more than working for them.
The “explicit guidance” is also minimally scientific: it varies from 1m in (parts of) Europe, to six feet in the US. These things are being made up on the fly.

There is no solid science for how far apart people should be, and there are so many complicating factors (what kind of room? how much airflow?) that any such guidance is a rough guideline, at best. Folks who are stringently trying to stay six feet apart from each other while walking down the street in Manhattan, for example, are more than a bit silly.

The GP is a reasonable statement of the current scientific knowledge: it isn’t airborne, and you actually do need fairly intimate contact to get the virus “through the air”. Spending hours together in an unventilated room is probably sufficient, even if you never get closer than 1m; conversely, it probably doesn’t matter much if you pass right next to someone on the street(unless they cough directly in your face).
I would be shocked if even half of the American workforce primarily works in an "at a desk" or equivalent type position.

I'm curious about this but don't have time to look up numbers. It's hard to make a reasonable guess because while cities (and the offices within them) have the highest density, there could be a very long tail of factory, strip mall, grocery store, etc. jobs that would be higher per capita outside of cities and invisible to someone living inside a city.
My partner has been treating COVID patients. The numbers she's seeing for COVID patients on ventilators surviving are better, but not by much.
This seems to be the dataset you are referring to https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/y-combi...

Hasn't been updated in awhile but better than nothing.
Their slogan is catchy but breaks bad in (my) mobile view
I think the main issue is that the Internet (especially reddit, and to a lesser extent, HN) is just not a good place for nuanced discussion.

China = totalitarian = bad. Any good results are either by luck or a lie.

USA = democracy = good. Any bad results are due to incompetence or Trump/Hillary (depending on your leanings).

Plenty of people exist in the gray area, but they're not going to be upvoted. Any post in support of China is going to be marked as "bot" or "CCP shill".

Japan gets lumped in with the US. The case I find funniest is South Korea. Everybody agrees SK has done an amazing job while maintaining a very free society and vibrant democracy. The room tends to go quiet when you mention that this was enabled by their mass surveillance network. (Check out the live streams of their traffic cams! [1]).

[1] https://map.naver.com/v5/?c=14135232.1111786,4519333.3257182...
Their salon is in Kichijoji which is not really central, as in well west along the Chuo line. I updated the original comment above.

I'm interested if you know more about this absurd-sounding Aso/wagyu beef tokens story? It's not reported at all in the western media.
It’s a common practice at most companies to allow some minimal use of company equipment to check private email etc while on break. As soon as that’s allowed a reasonable expectation of privacy exists.
I believe the WHO also presenting in ways to promote panic.

For instance the quote "Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died. By comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1% of those infected." [1]

These two number are are total false comparison. Now they may do this for good purposes: a little fear helps people take it serious and thus follow suit. But this I believe it is VERY intellectually dishonest and has me even question their narrative at this point. (No COVID19 denier here, just want to know what the chances of survival and inconveniences are for me + loved ones + world population at large)

3.4% = corona deaths / total cases tested positive

>1% = flu deaths / estimated total infected

Now these terms contain a lot of grey area but this is true, I did the peer review and made calcs to support what I say here: WHO presents apple-orange data. That's either by accident (I hope not, cuz statistics should be their game), or more likely to make it look more severe (again this could be with good intentions).

Another thing to consider is that the "total cases tested positive" likely have a serious selection bias. Sick folk is tested at the moment. Where a population research should test a random sample.

I'm just trying to make sense of this whole thing like all of us, but the WHO has put me off as a reputable source of info. Less shitty than the MSM journalists, sure, but not good either.

1: https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-...
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You can use iodine for those wi-fi hotspots that charge for access. It tunnels TCP-over-DNS
The rule of three is also a decorating rule. You should always clump picture, vases, etc. in clumps of three. The reason always given is balance. Three esthetically produces the best visual balance. Maybe the universe has an esthetic sense?
While the solders on through hole stuff come out messier, I find the goopyness of lead free solder to be superior for point to point connections.
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> University libraries are silent.

This is not universally true. I've done a lot of working in university libraries recently, and many of them have switched to allowing collaboration in the main spaces.

> A “library rules” open office would be just fine.

This still wouldn't work for me personally. I listen to music pretty much all the time while working, and get really sick of wearing headphones all the time. The only option is a private office. (I've gotten this by becoming a remote worker.)
Cargo transportation is probably one of few true free market sectors in the world economy. The Cargo hauls can't all get together and fix prices. There are just too many players and they all rely on Governments not getting angry that bunch of companies are artificially driving up prices during a pandemic.
This is really good news.

I've used a ton of VPN over the years, even some I wrote myself, and I've never seen anything that comes close to wireguard in terms of: ease of use, speed, cleanliness of code.

The world just got a whole lot secure and flexible.
It says non-custodial. Is it really impossible to hack if I enter my Api keys?
Employees do access personal information on company screens. If I check my healthcare plan or retirement plan, use the show password feature, look for another job outside my managers group, etc...

This is to say nothing of a normal employer who doesn't mind breaks if you're getting work done. I'd sooner try my luck living in the forest with the other animals than work under such surveillance. I feel sorry for those who are in a rough spot and feel pressed into this sort of thing.
Anything can be source of leverage. Doesn’t need to make sense.
> The real question is how long can it linger in the air?

There is an article out there that outlines this for other airborne diseases but I can't find it... Hot and dry is going to be the outright winner here...
can't imagine being locked up with a crazy bitch :D
Seattle != Washington

For the past two weeks we've been averaging 100-200 identified cases a day in King County. New cases has not been growing much since lock down.

King County population is 2,233,163. 200 new cases a day means 50% exposure (for heard immunity) will come in 5,583 days... over 15 years from now.
> Error: you cannot open another Chrome tab because all your cores are already used up by Slack and VSCode

You would probably still want to preempt, because you're not going to rewrite all the widely used software to actually yield.

Because that's the thing about cooperative multithreading, the participating parties need to cooperate.

And if you look at the amount of threads that some software open it's just crazy. Looking on my machine the top5 are:

1. 260 threads System (ok, that's basically the OS that could be changed).

2. 145 threads Dropbox.exe (that's enough to lock all cores on any single consumer CPU).

3. 87 threads SearchIndexer.exe (also OS, could be rectified).

4. 74 threads EpicGamesLauncher (looks like an i9 is no longer enough)

5. 70 threads MemoryCompression (also OS)

I know not all of those threads are active at all time an I guess all the blocking threads could be said to be cooperating but even Dropbox alone regularly has 3-5 threads running.

There's still so many 2 and 4 core consumer machines out there that cooperative multi-tasking with the current software ecosystem would be a disaster.

Not only would applications keep each other from making regular steady progress but even single applications would regularly hang themselves from all the threads they themselves created if there was no pre-emptive yielding beyond using any OS-call as a yield-point
This is a good guide to getting a WireGuard server working on macOS: https://barrowclift.me/post/wireguard-server-on-macos