skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. Wrong mental model. Your best bet is to hire/make/keep people interested in being productive. When this is lost there isn't going much you can do to improve productivity. Keeping employee chained to their desks will not magically make things get done. This is so naive. I wonder how humanity landed in the situation where half of all managers don't get the first thing about managing people.
> If your company can't handle ground-level employees having some autonomy in their work, then your business model isn't likely to survive.

> Besides, given the extraordinary circumstances I don't think it's fair to expect everyone to be equally productive to being in the office.

It's worth noting that you're describing a very specific subset of the world of employment, namely people who work with some degree of autonomy in an office setting.

I would be shocked if even half of the American workforce primarily works in an "at a desk" or equivalent type position.
Well, 12 years is an exaggeration. Once you have learned the concepts (which you need to learn independently of which programming language you use), getting used to the symbols is just a matter of a bit of practice. For example, I learnt to multiply with 3x2, but it did not take me 12 years to get used to the 3*2 notation used by most programming languages.

The symbols you have to remember are the ASCII symbols (most of them are used in other programming languages too), with two operations for symbol, plus a few special cases and a bunch of extra functions. In total, less than 50 primitives. I think that any programmer can easily handle that.

There are many people who do not agree with this, but there is objective data (see the papers by Iverson about his efforts to teach mathematics using APL) that say it is easy to learn. In all these threads, most people with experience in array languages say it is not so hard as it looks, although there are some exceptions.

You may prefer other kind of languages or other kind of notation. There certainly is some subjective factor here. But I suggest everyone to give it a try before forming an opinion.
Anything with a futures contract on major exchanges can be very easily. CME has a list of futures contracts: https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/products/
Before you do anything, apply for unemployment, and speak to any creditors (landlord, mortgage servicer, auto loan servicer, credit card companies) about relief available to delay payments.

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/27/822629588/lost-work-because-o... (Lost Work Because Of Coronavirus? How To Get Unemployment, Skip Loan Payments And More)

https://infection2020.substack.com/p/10000-emergency-disaste... | https://covid19relief.sba.gov ($10,000 Emergency Disaster Grant, Small Business Administration)
Responsive is a technical term that means it adapts to multiple screen sizes.

In a nutshell, it just means the website works on mobile and works well.

It's technical jargon, sure. But it means something important to web designers/creators. I'd run away from a web framework in 2020 that wasn't responsive.
I can guarantee you that this country has the industrial capacity to produce any kind of parts, especially for a well known technology like ventilators. The fact is that they are not doing it because nobody alerted and told them to do so three months ago.
Calvinball, anyone?
Let's assume they were informed upfront - there's nothing illegal about it then, is there?
Someone who cannot leave a relationship in which abuse did not just take place once, but repeated (hence "abusive"); when what should society do that it should not already be doing to everyone?

* ensure you have food and shelter

* ensure reasonably safe

* ensure that children are admitted to some school

* ensure you dont sink into deep poverty

When a society cannot help on these points, what use is requesting these for the small sub category of marginalized that are so because of an abusive relationship, that they themselves are usually to some extend are continued to be pulled back into?
"[the charity] plans trials". They haven't even started the test yet if dogs can sniff out the virus.
They'd then be competing against the airline industry when they're on the ground and some politicians may lose their some of their super PACs. Imagine how upset all the huge airline investors and corporate heads would be, never mind the pandemic medical urgency that should temporarily supercede these sort of concerns.
The mere fact that the employee is at work or using work resources has been found on several occasions to be insufficient justification for serious privacy infringements. These days it would come under GDPR or, in some member states, their national privacy laws where those are stronger.

As a rule of thumb, an employer can take reasonable steps to protect themselves as far as monitoring is concerned, often with the requirement that the subjects of the surveillance have been told in advance that it might happen. But there is always an implied requirement of necessity and proportionality in the background. Monitoring a specific employee where there is evidence to suggest they are leaking trade secrets is one thing. Routine monitoring of everyone's computers where you end up, say, recording the login details they used to access online banking and check whether their expenses have been paid yet is something very different.

Edit: Some easy-to-read sources:

https://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/experts/legal/gdpr-implic...

https://gdpr.report/news/2017/11/17/5383/

You can also check the guidance from the various national data protection agencies, such as the ICO's publication "The employment practices code", which address this issue in quite a lot of detail.
It takes a long time on windows to find the right 3rd party software combination to make for a painfree and seamless workflow. But, once it is done, Windows feels like a very complete OS.

A lot of window's problems seem very solvable on the surface. Some have been solved well by aforementioned 3rd party applications, but I still find myself pulling hairs when some others seem so easy to solve, yet no one has solved them.

I sometimes wish I was a Windows app developer with a lot of time on my hands, and no need for money. There are so many little things that once fixed, would drastically improve the UX...with so little effort.

It's like how reddit is a 100x better with RES, which is built by 1 guy. But a company worth $2 billion can't offer the same features natively.
F# is not the same thing. It's missing some of the best features of OCaml, e.g. the module system. And no, the object stuff they put into it is not a suitable replacement.
Coronavirus is brewing a mortgage crisis
These claims have no basis in facts. The case fatality rate varies greatly depends on whether the health capacity is being overwhelmed, because when you don't have enough ICU beds or ventilators, your seriously ill patients cannot live. Lombardy experienced a greater strain on its medical system than Wuhan ever did. China sent 40,000 medical professionals from the rest of the country to Wuhan where has Lombardy had little outside aid. China also had universal masking whereas Italy never did. The real case count in Italy is in the 7 figures.

When you do widespread testing as China did in Zhejiang you can find a lot of mild cases. Indeed, Iceland, which did the same, has 1020 cases and 2 deaths.
Is there a map of where this is legal and illegal?
And department stores have been among the hardest-hit in retail: Sears, JC Penney, and Macy's have all been struggling.
Analyzing AWS API calls for security
For what it’s worth, the Japanese justice system has an over 99% conviction rate.
The term for the sliding scale between airborne and contact only spread is aerosolized.

It's still a not universally agreed to term or concept, but likely will be, especially after this ordeal.
It's the same thing every year on International Women's Day but then International Men's Day comes along and it's crickets.

The reason there are women's shelters exit at all is because a passionate group of women stepped up and put in the work to set them up, run the day-to-day operations, get legislation passed for funding and grants, put in the development work to get charitable donations, work with food pantries, clothing donors, grocery stores and a million other things you need to run a nonprofit.

I can only speak to my area, but if you're a man in an abusive relationship and escape and turn up on the door of one of the shelters that on paper only accepts women they're not gonna just kick you out in the cold.
Are you sure we aren't seeing consequences?

https://www.vox.com/covid-19-coronavirus-explainers/2020/3/2... shows that I am hardly alone in my suspicion that the numbers look good because reality is not being tracked.
I don't find any of those things crazy as I appreciate most of them too. All three are common place in America. None are in danger of going away. No, what I find crazy is letting millions of fellow Americans die and get sick so that a few people and corporations can get rich off their suffering. And not being prepared for a pandemic because the moron in chief cut the cdc budget and thinks it's a hoax. There's lots of things I find crazy but trucks, big houses, and guns are absolutely not among them.
Yes, go to import and change the directory you want it to import from and choose the "Import Only" option.
“Panic buying” is the new word for “purchases I condemn”
The toilet is company equipment, too.
Nextstrain: Real-time tracking of pathogen evolution
Bill Ackman response on buying collateralized debt obligations in Jan
AFAIK the T2 is also the SSD controller in Apple's architecture, meaning it speaks directly to the NAND. So it should not be necessary for data to first go to the CPU, then to the T2 for decryption - the T2 can transparently decrypt and encrypt while doing the job of offering block-device-level access to the flash chips.
As someone who does a lot of work in the area of stopping abusers, and also has my own experiences as a victim of an abuser - for a long time I placed all the responsibility and agency on the man who abused me and didn't want to see that I actually made bad choices and ignored early red flags when I was involved with him. This doesn't mean that it was my fault that he was abusive, it just means that I can make better choices in the future and not let this happen to me again. When I used to view this abuser as entirely responsible for his abuse, it made me feel like I was helpless to prevent this from happening to me again. Abusers tend to target women who are insecure and don't know how to stand up for themselves and set boundaries, so I absolutely believe that teaching women how to notice red flags (ignoring boundaries, gaslighting, blatant disrespect, lies) can help keep them safe.

It's definitely more important to make sure abusers face consequences, but I think it's mechanical to ignore that women who are victimized can learn skills to protect themselves as well.

Edit: There's a dialectical relationship between the abusive man and his female victim. The abusive man has more power initially, but in order for the victim to leave the abusive relationship, she has to choose to prioritize her own safety and well-being (rather than listen to the abuser's manipulation). A lot of female victims tend to be victims of multiple men, so a solution to domestic abuse must address both aspects, and it is possible to address the victim's agency in an empathetic and caring way without insinuating that she is at fault for being a victim. There are resources that address this, like Lundy Barcroft's "Why Does He Do That?"

In my case, I really had no concept of boundaries or what a healthy relationship looked like until I was well into adulthood. I only realized this four years after I was in an abusive relationship.

Also, I definitely think that the main priority should be ensuring that abusers face consequences, and the justice system completely fails victims of domestic violence in this area. Without this, telling women to learn better skills is just victim blaming.
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That's been the general vibe the popular tech press has been spouting for awhile. That NNs are somehow a major step towards AGI, which'll 'capture the lightcone of the future' to quote Sam Altman.

At some point, we'll realize that AGI is the modern alchemy. Ironically, alchemy's penultimate goal was to construct a homoculus, which is essentially the goal of AGI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus#Alchemy

"The allegorical text suggests to the reader that the ultimate goal of alchemy is not chrysopoeia, but it is instead the artificial generation of humans."
I think GP was probably being hyperbolic. Speaking with temperament sadly doesn't work well on the Internet.
Yes but would it always hold up in court? You can give your soul away by installing a piece of software without reading the agreement but it wouldn't hold water, of course. Curious how this would work with federal or state level wiretap laws.
What's the point of using a different syntax if you are going to be interacting,reading,fixing code in ocaml syntax?
Has anyone applied Benford's law to the raw data? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford's_law
Genetic Diseases to Guide Digital Hacks of the Human Genome (2017) [video]
That is true, and I've seen it deployed to good effect... but it's a knob you should turn when it becomes evident it is needed for a particular person, not something you just nail to "maximum" for all employees.
That isn't necessarily true either. IIRC, there was a case not so long ago of a school that was using quite aggressive surveillance measures, and obtained some degree of prior consent. It was still penalised under the GDPR, because all processing of personal data must be justified. Even consent is not carte blanche to do whatever you want, and that's probably a good thing for the same reason that inalienable consumer rights when you shop or employment rights when you take a job are probably good things.

Edit: Apparently there are now at least two examples of this.

In Sweden, relating to facial recognition:

https://www.gamingtechlaw.com/2019/09/fine-gdpr-sweden.html

In Poland, relating to fingerprints:

https://venturebeat.com/2020/03/06/polish-school-hit-with-gd...
It may sound like a basic platitude, but I think you're correct.

I feel fortunate to work with people who want to treat each other like adults. That's been my managers' perspectives, and it's well appreciated.
Coronavirus: What if this had happened in 2005?
Sure, absolutely the Japanese justice system has some serious problems, just as the American one does. But let's not pretend that they're remotely comparable to the CCP.
”The 6' radius limit is nonsense for this disease.”

Epidemiologists do not study individual cases; they study statistics. For that, social distancing helps in the sense that it decreases the speed at which this spreads.

AFAIK, this virus needs water to survive. If so, it depends on how long droplets will survive in the air. Larger ones will fall down sooner, smaller ones will evaporate sooner (all depending on humidity and temperature)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK143281/ says ”droplets >5 μm in diameter that fall rapidly to the ground under gravity, and therefore are transmitted only over a limited distance (e.g. ≤1 m)” and ”large droplets comprise most of the total volume of expelled respiratory droplet”

So, keeping a small distance decreases the probability of infection, but doesn’t prevent it.

Edit: figure C.2 in that article shows the “Wells evaporation-falling curve of droplets”, which shows that, at room temperature, a diameter of around 120 μm is the worst, time-wise. Smaller droplets evaporate sooner, larger ones fall down earlier (all assuming zero convection, I assume, something that isn’t realistic)
> If you only read the headlines or listen to tweets that butcher what exactly is being talked about.

I'm amazed at how many people do that, even when the headline ends in a question.
Right, the virus is SARS-CoV-2, so if there were two different strains of something, wouldn't it mean two different strains of the virus itself?
If so that's a bit mean. Not everyone here is a native English speaker.
huh, that's an interesting theory.

I like working on stuff at tech meetups. I always bring my laptop, mostly because the speakers can be boring and being in a room like that helps me focus on personal projects. I use to go to writing meetups too.

That being said, I absolutely hate open layouts. I would much rather prefer a cubical.

I'm not sure if this generalization would hold out if you surveyed people, but it might. I'd be curious.
Assuming that is accurate, do they just perhaps take a different approach to who they bother to prosecute?

Justice systems are really hard to compare considering the different circumstances.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster

The accident started during a safety test on an RBMK-type nuclear reactor, which was commonly used throughout the Soviet Union. The test was a simulation of an electrical power outage to aid the development of a safety procedure for maintaining reactor cooling water circulation until the back-up electrical generators could provide power. This gap was about one minute and had been identified as a potential safety problem that could cause the nuclear reactor core to overheat. It was hoped to prove that the residual rotational energy in a turbine generator could provide enough power to cover the gap. Three such tests had been conducted since 1982, but they had failed to provide a solution. On this fourth attempt, an unexpected 10-hour delay meant that an unprepared operating shift was on duty. During the planned decrease of reactor power in preparation for the electrical test, the power unexpectedly dropped to a near-zero level. The operators were able to only partially restore the specified test power, which put the reactor in a potentially unstable condition. This risk was not made evident in the operating instructions, so the operators proceeded with the electrical test. Upon test completion, the operators triggered a reactor shutdown, but a combination of unstable conditions and reactor design flaws caused an uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction instead.
https://cuelang.org has something to say about this
Spying on your employee, or using covert monitoring tactics, is rarely legal. Not sure on the criminality, but privacy laws are enforceable. Also, there's a distinction between monitoring and spying.

Ex: California Social Media Law (2013)

https://readwrite.com/2013/01/15/californias-new-privacy-law...
> What university is that? It sounds awful.

Rather not say, but a few do that. Plus in something like CS there's an hour long wait for office hours which are 2 hours twice a week with maybe 3 profs - so 6 hours for 500+ students - not much opportunity to ask questions.

> That's only kinda true of 100-level courses and massively popular generals, and quickly becomes false the farther you advance.

Absolutely. Get rid of the 1k lecture theatres for the undergrad courses and build some labs. Get some 3D printers/CNC machines for the Engineering students. A mock court room for the Law department? Some chemistry labs? Move the "I don't need to be here to learn" courses online and expand office hours, TA availability and provide more hands on experience.

Ya, I wouldn't want to see a doctor who learned online. But one how took some calc or basic med courses online but has more hands on/practical experience? Sure!
Many people agree to a lot more than they realize in order to get the job. And since some practices are very common, rejecting them simply locks you out of your target segment of the job market. The balance of power in most cases is heavily tilted towards the employer, things like this aren't negotiable unless you are at or close to the top.
We shouldn't let him anchor to those numbers. More than 10k is already a catastrophe, and difficult to justify given the advance warning.

Everything in excess of that is a shocking mix of incompetence, hubris and malice - including refusing help to states whose governors aren't sufficiently deferential.
HTML? Isn't that something you write by hand?

In a good number of very large (Fortune 100) companies, yes. Even in large tech companies.

Just as mechanical lathes and nail guns didn't put carpenters out of business, there are plenty of web sites that benefit from the attention of human hands, not just trusting the latest fad framework to concatenate several thousand dependencies pulled from random GitHub repositories.
Here is the key part of the article:

> Straight-up Big Brother, perhaps, but it’s perfectly legal for businesses to keep an unblinking eye on employees as long as they disclose they’re doing it.

It is the companies equipment, network (on their side of the VPN), time, and so forth. That being said it is legally fine so long as they disclose they are doing so.

If they monitor in ways that have not been disclosed they risk of a class action lawsuit should that knowledge be leaked to employees.

Let's look at a far more extreme example: US Army. US Army is not allowed to monitor user activity in that way and all users of Army networks are made aware of this. Users must also sign their agreement to an Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) before gaining access to the network. The Army example is more extreme because the Army owns the computers, the network, and all physical network infrastructure that companies typically lease to ISPs. The Army has the ability to monitor user activity in ways that companies cannot and yet the Army does not do so because it's illegal without a probable cause search warrant or command directive with legal authorization.

For example, computers with an Army image monitor for attachment of mass storage devices and moment a phone or hard drive is plugged in the network administrator is immediately notified, the local network switch is automatically dropped from the network, and a report is automatically drafted for the respective violating unit. The Army can monitor for that because it is a violation of the AUP users signed, but they cannot monitor any associated content without probably cause and an AUP violation on its own is not probable cause.

I have heard, on the other hand, the Air Force monitors absolutely everything because they require their users to sign a consent to monitoring directive to gain access to the network.
you mean Protobuf or what exactly?
>I'm surprised cubicles get so much hate.

cubicles were a step down from individual offices, and was the manifestation of commoditization of the software engineering. The transition from cubicles to open offices was the part of that process going even further. Basically blue collar workers of 196x on a large factory floor.

One would think that we've reached the peak of bad offices ... Well, i think some form of vertically stacked option is coming in the mid-term. In the short-term i think the next thing is the "cloud" style approach where no office desk is assigned permanently and coming into office you'd have to [find and]schedule a desk for yourself. That would allow to cut office space even more.
I can't recall if it was a friend of a friend or something I read online, but I vaguely remember an anecdote from someone who was out camping without contact on 9/11. I cannot imagine coming back home after that.
I'd like to see an example on either landing point, both preferably.
>Isn't the main reason for the success of this measure precisely to make any infected people retain droplets (big or small) inside the mask?

The one thing that people don't seem to think about is even if it's only effective at keeping droplets from infected people from spreading, how are all of the asymptomatic supposed to know they should wear a mask?

The obvious solution is that everyone should wear a mask. I think people keep discouraging mask use due to the shortage, but if people are misinforming the public due to a shortage that's still not cool