skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I strenuously object to you painting the USSR as worse as Nazi Germany.

"Worse" based on the total number of their own people killed. I don't think there's any dispute that that number is much higher for the USSR than for Nazi Germany.

Since you mention Auschwitz, you might also consider the fact that the USSR had plenty of concentration camps in which people suffered just as badly. I have no doubt your grandparent's experience at Auschwitz was horrible, far, far worse than your experience in Hungary, but your experience in Hungary was also far, far better than what the USSR showed itself to be capable of. Alexander Solzhenitsyn in The Gulag Archipelago described one of the USSR's camps as a "polar Auschwitz".
>It is akin to simply denying a whole scientific field because you feel it's are wrong

Economics isn't a science.
> One may also wonder why bacteria or viruses would escape the innate innate immune defense mechanisms, which are responsible for protecting the brain against such an invasion.

Well there is Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. Which is a delayed complication of measles that happens from months to decades after infection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subacute_sclerosing_panencepha...
Horrible timing but best of luck. I know how hard it is, it took me 6 months to get my current job with 3-4 interviews a week and a bunch of nonsense technical exams just to get the interview. At the end of each day applying, calling and interviewing, my head was buzzing from stress burn out. Honestly way too hard of work just to get a job that breaks my back daily for so-so pay. Better off starting my own business with the level of effort required these days just to make someone else rich.

Your ace in the hole is the Mandarin of course, depending how good you actually are with it.
Chicago has lots of urban coyotes. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-news/ch...
I lived in the Presidio not too long ago and I would see and hear them all the time. That was a fun place to live.
Uranus Is Leaking
> That's not an alternative to a bailout, its a common bailout method

When and where has a government made a large equity investment in a company and recouped its investment plus a reasonable insurance premium?

Here are some examples where it has not:

Penn Central Railroad 1970

Savings and Loan Crisis 1989

California Energy Sector 2000

Airline Industry 2001

Banking Sector 2008

Auto Sector 2008

If you want a non-comprehensive primer, see [1].

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/government-bailouts
This is an important question, as the vast majority of high-end smartphone and other camera sensors are manufactured by them (Canon is the notable exception as a company that doesn't use Sony sensors) and it's a very profitable business.

If I understand correctly from the official announcement the three sub-companies are going to be "Imaging Products & Solutions", "Home Entertainment & Sound" and "Mobile Communications" - the sensor business would fall pretty neatly into the first one.
I’ve been envious of the Sony bodies, but the thought of giving up my Nikon glass meant I wasn’t moving. I’ve been thinking about picking up a z6, but I’m not sure it’s worth the price.
I consistently make others laugh: in conversation, on stage, and through writing.

Well, you have a captive audience and probably some unique perspective to share, so launch your YouTube channel.
> There's something to be said for functional languages, or at least functional patterns.

Here’s my obligatory (and excellent) blog post by John Carmack where he adopts the functional style for a month: https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/169296/Indepth_Functiona...
I'm in Boston, and AFAIK there's nowhere I can get a test without having severe symptoms that require hospitalization.
The rest you listed require inference and causality.

Deep learning does not do this.

Data with less noises are what most deep learning and non statistical models does well. Meaning that image, nlp, etc.. deep learning does well. But data with lots noises/uncertainty/variance or even data that isn't large enough, such as time series, currently statistical models are still king (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makridakis_Competitions).

Even with healthcare you're answering a question/ hypothesis. This is where statistical models strength lies because all statistical models are hypothesis tests and vice versa. There are very little opportunity in healthcare where you would use deep learning compare to statistic. I've seen NLP can be of use but the majority of work in healthcare are inference/casuality base (this is why they use propensity model so much). I'm in this space public healthcare.
I fail to understand this.

>The most simple face mask (not a gas mask) does not protect you from environment, it protects other people from you.

>Moreso a mask can be a cause for reinfection with virus, since you are breathing back in what you exhale.

>Hoarding prevention is also a very important task in the midst of a crisis. Hence WHO recommendation is justified.

These three sentences can be boiled down to:

- WHO's recommendation is justified to prevent the hoarding of that item because:

If you're sick, wearing it will harm you and protect others. If you're not, it's useless to you.

Therefore, only sick people wanting to remain sick should wear them. That excludes physicians who may not be sick, and do not wish to remain sick if they already are.

Furthermore, is the protective property on the simple face masks anisotropic? How does it protect in a way and not in the other? Does a mask of non null thickness and non null fabric count protect less than no material? Will it prevent absolutely no harmful particle from getting to me?

Sick++|| Healthy (works when sick wears it)
Sick+ +||Healthy (fails when healty wears it)

Do I understand this correctly?
It's almost certainly a translation from Japanese. The "not only...but also..." pattern is giveaway, plus the rather long sentence stitched together with "while". It can be really hard to force Japanese into natural sounding English.
I second Fire in the Valley - there are a lot of good Mac-era anecdotes. Hertzfeld put a lot of them at https://www.folklore.org/ as well.
Nobody can ensure dignity for someone else. You either conduct yourself with dignity or you don't.
You could say if more people lived in places like Manhattan, then there'd be more tracts of land elsewhere for coyotes (and other wildlife) to live.
Code: the hidden language of computer hardware and software, by Charles Petzold.

It's a modern classic (2000). It's less technical and more about the history behind the idea/theories of coding itself. It also explains some basic principles of how computers work, at a high level. Very well written.
Boss Wrote Song to Lift Employees Spirits During Covid-19
The idea is that your code could be formatted for you as you type instead of having to wait until you reach a point where your code has no errors and hitting save.
If the read node ultimately has a dependency on the write node, whats the point of separating them in your architecture?
Is that your idea of a constructive contribution?
Look, you're not going to find something that satisfies you.

The best you can do is a directory full of plain text and markdown files stored on a Dropbox or something.

Then, on Linux use something like nvpy or one of the numerous text editors. Point it at the Dropbox dir. Write a bunch of helper shell scripts to automate tasks.

On Mac, use something like nvAlt and point it at the Dropbox directory. Or go do the same thing I mentioned for Linux above.

On Android, find some plain text notes app that lets you point it at a Dropbox folder.

If you're into a cloud-based solution, take a look at Simplenote which has clients for all of the above.
Thank you. Despite being in the midst of a pandemic, that is the worst thing I've read all week. It looks well cited, although I don't have the heart to check the sources...
May I ask how you get started with technical writing? I've basically come to the conclusion I don't want to work in academia but have fairly advanced coding and writing skills. It seems like it's possibly a good fit for me but I have no idea how or where to start.
I personally hope this shows (some) irrelevance of FDA bureaucracy...if they weren't need in the worst of times, why are they needed in the best of times?

Let entrepreneurs, doctors, and patients decide their individual risk level. I would rather have more options than less.

Edit: as an alternative to any knee jerk critism (I said "some"), why can't states handle this and the best emerge? I'm a big proponent of localism.
Most/all languages today take away options. Any OTL would just provide defaults. Details are optional but always possible. I thought I was pretty clear about that re assembly. That's barely even one of the hard parts.

I'm well aware of what it means to have a language for everyone to use. I'm thinking of everything from bootloaders to machine learning to interactive shells. The reason there isn't one yet is that it's really hard. Lots of basic theory about how to think about computation is still being sounded out. Unifying frameworks have been known to take a few decades after that. Still no reason to think it's impossible.

You're just repeating that there will always be gaps, with no evidence except gaps in languages produced by today's rushed, history-bound ecosystem. You're trying to use JS as a illustration of an OTL, which is baffling. Having a limited set of integer sizes would obviously not fly.

I'm apparently not getting the vision across. This is not even a type of thing that exists today, which is why I keep saying to use more imagination. Racket is only close due to its radical flexibility in inputs and outputs.
How so? I worked at an all remote company. We were remote from the day of founding.

Everyone I hired I hired remotely, without ever meeting in person. In the two instances I had to let people go I did it remotely. The same way I hired them, the same way I’ve had people quit.
I'm surprised no one brought up the idea more people will just telecommute and work remotely, as so many are now discovering they can.
Delta waves them for recent reservations. Our April plans were done in late January and they still want $150/ticket to modify something done on points...
I've lost localStorage on PWAs before. But that was a number of years ago when I was still bothering to develop them. I also lost data in appcache repeatedly, then service workers came along to fix that, because the browser vendors' strategy for broken implementations is to deprecate them with an even more complex standard that they will never finish. Then they can close your bugs against the old standard that they never finished implementing as WONTFIX and everyone gets a promotion for shipping.
Apple and google have large cash reserves. They also could have paid off all their debt with the profits.
Picketing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picketing
Immune Boosting
What foods we should eat to boost our immune system to protect covid-19?
> The same people who ruled the world before ww2, ruled it after ww2 without any systematic change.

I find that claim difficult to reconcile with the fact that WW2, or more specifically, the collapse of the empires participating in it, broke the back of jackboot-and-bayonet colonialism.

Not to mention that it completely reshaped the fate of Central and Eastern Europe for the next seventy years.

The only people for whom little changed after the war were Americans, Scandinavians, and the Swiss. (I'd list the Russians, but while nothing changed domestically, they did find themselves in the middle of a new empire.)
One interesting thing is rather than stop flights from Wuhan they had inspectors ride on the flights and check the passengers mid flight and then quarantine anyone questionable on arrival.
But what can you do with MongoDB that you can't do with Postgres? (Not sure about MySQL)

Last I read, JSONB performance is actually better in Postgres anyway, and you also get the ability to expand into relational data if you want to.
As someone from one of those smaller population "socialist" countries, what we can't get our head around is how America justifies it's health insurance system. It's the richest nation on earth, yet you can't have a small tax to ensure that poorer people don't spread disease and illness.

A healthy population is more productive, leading to higher profits. Even the capitalists can surely see this is a good thing.
> You need about 6 GB RAM for the development environment (whereas the production environment needs about 2 GB). And an internet connection — you'll download perhaps 1 GB Docker images and other files.

Scala/JVM - a bit too heavy for something simple as this. The system requirements are ridiculous. Why not implement similar things in Go? Gitea vs GitLab performance and ease of deploy is the best showcase for these tasks.
Why the Facebook and Google SDKs are in all your apps
You might be giving it more autonomy as a unit to operate than possible as a unit within a larger organization. Letting it operate as its own company with it's own revenues and statements and all is also good for investors for greater transparency (why Google restructured to become alphabet for example). They might divest it or have it IPO separately (and it sounds like they are trying to simplify their business so that might be in the works) but just giving it the full freedom to operate as its own company might be worth it in its own.
> As Torbjörn commented, Smolin is considered a fringe figure in the field and has not had the compelling successes required for his theory of the evolution of the universe to become mainstream.

Fringe is an exaggeration. Smolin is certainly a dissident in theories of quantum gravity. I would imagine most physicists, including myself, are not impressed by his convictions about various aspects of reality. But at the same time, I think most physicists share his view that string theory is not likely to be fruitful anytime soon. Historically, quantum mechanics, which unites the physics of light and matter, was discovered only after many mathematical developments in both fields that led to the two analogous theories of the principle of least time and the principle of least action. By contrast, the exegesis of quantum mechanics and general relativity has only just begun. Smolin has gained notoriety by appealing to this sense of doubt. "Fringe" however is a term more commonly applied to arguments and theories widely believed to be without merit. That would be an unfair characterization here.
> The cost will be cheaper the more we spread it out instead of concentrating it all on this company or that company.

But hey, wait a minute! You are not suggesting that the US should adopt a humane way of treating people instead of holding a carrot in front of 95% of people that they can never reach all under the guise of the American dream, whatever the fuck that is supposed to be?
The Overton window - fascinating.

I'm waiting for these conferencing apps to feed into clearview ai.
MIni Keypad for BlackBerry Q10
Especially because they know that if they go under, the Federal government will have their back. It's win-win, baby! What's a moral hazard?
3D-printed case brings DIY NAS building to a new level
People were very much in arms about it when that story broke.
From what I've seen, the D780 is a very well rounded 'best of both worlds' body. And I, having tasted the amazing quality and ease of use of video on the Z50, paired with forever-battery and very good focus system on the D750, am tempted to pick one up.
Still hearing MSYS2 is better than WSL for Windows dev, what's your experience?
Obviously there's going to be some contextual differences here (for example, maybe a Ruby on Rails dev - or any pure web platform dev - might find WSL[2 especially] experience more cohesive with a pure vertical Linux), but I'm hearing that MSYS2 is still the best •nix-like dev environment for Windows.

I guess with MinGW you do get the true Windows native development experience and excellent speeds, but I'm kinda curious: what are your experiences?

When does MSYS2 make sense and where does it fall short?

What terminals are best (mintty vs conemu, etc.) and what overall dev environment makes normal Linux / *nix / macOS users most comfortable with the least speed compromises?
Zoom decided to remove the Facebook SDK in their iOS client https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/03/27/zoom-use-of-facebo... fixing this issue.
Plenty of companies will have trouble borrowing money, it's a financial crisis. Money market rates and rates on corporate paper were through the roof triggering a liquidity crisis. Looks like the fed is really stepping in agressively, and hopefully they'll succeed, but we already saw credit markets almost lock up. Doesn't matter if you're profitable if nobody is willing to lend.
I've never worked in China but I spent years wanting to work in Southeast Asia and being put off by visa requirements. Eventually I learned that the way to do it is come over on a regular business visa you just get like a tourist visa, then find someone to hire you and then the employer sorts out the visa. If you don't find a job before the business visa runs out, just do a visa run to Hong Kong.
Is there any data on the false negative rate?
Trump Has Declared Open Season on Liberals
They want six feet social distancing? Send them six feet underground!

The liberal "elite" have destroyed the economy.
The fed and congress. hence stimulus.
http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTRAN/

http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/

http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/

http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/c_plus_plus/

http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/prolog/
i think that in this case it's a risk trade-off. you don't want to have to make these kind of decisions daily
these are the cdc guidelines for removing gloves safely. it's literally the simplest and most obvious thing in the world. i rarely wore gloves before this and this is what i have been doing with my gloves the entire time. why do you think this would be difficult for people?

https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/pdf/poster-how-to-remove-glove...
It's absolutely insane that this is the most painless workaround in 2020
Because that is a HUGE risk involved. You can't turn back time and undo damage or bring someone back to life.
Reflecting on how my relationship with death has varied with my life experiences, I don't think you know enough about his particular experience to call him a coward.
This is what happens when you let these liberal fucks do whatever they want.

We should line them all up on the firing line.

Straight fucking assholes.
Archive link to not give anti-white Vice ad money: https://web.archive.org/web/20200328020512/https://www.vice.....
Berkshire comes to mind. Buffet has been saying he's itching for an elephant sized aquisition for a while now. Here's their chance.
I finished this one a couple months ago, highly recommended! After I started his Einstein biography in college, I missed several classes after getting caught up in it and losing track of time.
It’s a nice proof of concept though. I think that further applying the second part of the article (masking) to lighter parts of the image at a different intensity could provide a more accurate simulation.

Edit: I really have no idea what I’m talking about. I’m just guessing it can definitely be improved upon. I probably should’ve stopped at it’s a nice proof of concept (like most free content) :)
Gotta love when HN users go out of their way to apologize for disgusting and immortal behavior by tech companies. I'd expect nothing less.
It is not always redundant. It can be used to politely signal that you may be wrong about something you are asserting, even when you are sure about it and everyone knows you are sure. This is especially helpful when you have visible authority over the other parties in the discussion.
BioWare is working on a new game from one of its “most prestigious franchises”
"Stodgy gatekeeper" and "nothing" are not the only regulatory regimes available.

Like you could have looser requirements to enter the market and then penalize/ban companies/people that make bad/unsafe tests. (yes, I'm proposing that people involved in marketing useless medical tests be banned from doing it a second time. Might be hard to structure it, but the goal is clear enough).
They are 100% turfing hard in here.
Apart from irresponsible behavior of not reducing debt or not keeping enough money reserves, few other points to note:
- CEO and the executive board gets pay rise based on stock price increase which is a silly math because the total market cap does not increase..
- Share buyback gives a quick boost to share prices, and often, the executives have found to be selling shares immediately after share buyback. It's almost like they pre-plan the buyback and following stock sale. There are many studies showing this to be a more common practice.
"Right To Try" is a return to legal snake oil. Hell no, get it out of here.

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2018/06/21/we...

And let’s see if my nastier, more cynical Derek-Against-Humanity prediction comes true: that the next wave will not be just people who have seized on this plan opportunistically, but who have targeted it right from the start. Who will pick out terrible diseases for which there are no therapies at all, the better to insure a supply of completely desperate patients and families, and provide them with utterly useless therapies at stiff, stiff prices. Utterly harmless therapies, though – don’t want to get sued while you’re raking in the bucks. I’m talking polysaccharide therapy for pancreatic cancer, antioxidant phytonutrients for Alzheimer’s: in other words, corn starch and grape juice. What the hell. The customers are going to die, anyway. Why should they die with their money as well?
The Thirty Years War also confirmed that the primary legitimate basis for power would be noble birth instead of ordination by God - a shift begun by the Reformation.

The French Revolution/Napoleonic Wars began the shift away from noble birth and WW I&II confirmed that the primary legitimate basis for power would be ownership and property.
shocking no-one, i haven't seen a single confusion matrix in any reporting for COVID19 test efficacy.
Sounds like you have some great skills/experience,

I was just looking for a job for a few months. I would recommend first planning:

-when do i run out of money and need to take any job i can get

-how long am i willing to continue to train my skills/apply to jobs before i want to give up and take any job? (make sure to take advantage of having the ability to keep learning/improving your skills while you are not working)

-what is the minimum amount of money you need to take a job? any other deal breakers? sounds like emacs might be one for you. I would apply to every emacs job in your country/region (at least 25 resume submissions a week)

I dont know how to answer "what is the right job for you". If you want to be an automation-engineer (i dont really know what that is exactly), i would recommend talking to some automation-engineers for their thoughts on your experience/what you need to do to make yourself more hire-able/cold-emailing people on linkedin works sometimes and could lead to referrals.

-reverse recruiting: messaging people on linkedin asking to talk about getting referred

General advice

If we assume 1/100 resumes get seen by a human in a company recruiting department, and youve gotten 10 interviews/a few hundred resume submissions. you have an unusually high resume response rate. Keep applying! Try not get frustrated

-spend 30 min/hr a day practicing leetcode/reading cracking the coding interview to improve algo skills as a lot of companies ask these things

-keep building projects and stuffing it in your github and try make commits to open source projects (documentation fixes is better than no commits)
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