skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its amazing how many Zoom screenshots have spelling or grammar errors, like this one. For a supposedly US based company, its pretty clear a lot of the UI text isn't written by a native English speaker.

I'm not intedning to demean non-native English speakers or their ability to write code - but this looks pretty bad from a QA standpoint.

edit: elsewhere in the thread its shown most of the software engineering team is in China, which explains this.
Lets say average life expectency of victims if they didn't have COVID is say 15 years.

Lets say 2 million would die without a lockdown.

That's 30 million years of life without a lockdown.

In the U.S. a year of life is under $150k, so that's an upper "value" of lockdown of $4.5T

U.S. GDP is 21T, so a 25% drop in GDP caused by a lockdown would not be value for money.
Sprint CEO is not staying on as CEO of the merged company. T-Mobile's COO is.
You can't pick strawberries over zoom, but it's pretty easy to distance yourself from others on a farm. And let's face it, if you have the physical fortitude for farm work, you aren't at risk from coronavirus.
So did this role end up in the hands of Google?
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This will sound odd to the vast majority but there are some who view the whole idea of their personal immortality as awful and the drive to obtain it incomprehensible. Even if it were in some harp filled cloud borne paradise let alone in the real word. To some, permanent existence seems unspeakably nightmarish.
Whatever the specific case here, I think we're hitting some sort of epistemological point with after-the-fact data analysis. Pseudoscience, basically. I realise that the term is inflammatory but ultimately it comes down to some fundamentals.

There's a reason why science as a philosophy places so much value on experimentation that makes predictions and tests them. Testability is a fundamental. Untestable theories are not just wrong, they're nonsensical to science. Take Ostrom's "Simulation hypothesis." Is it pseudoscientific? Depends. Is it testable? Is a simulated universe different in a testable way? A theoretically testable simulation hypothesis makes predictions. One that isn't, doesn't. A simulation which is 100% unknowable cannot be a scientific theory. This doesn't strictly mean that it isn't true, it just means we can't gain scientific knowledge of it. If it's masquerading as a scientific theory, then it is pseudoscience.

On the "softer" level, there's a reason why science as a cultural, intellectual institution places so much value on eliminating observer effects. Scientists own bias has always been a major detriment to science. Often in the history of science, generations have had to die off before bias can be shed and science advanced in some area.

Basically and practically, the "double blind" designs of experiments are the heart of this. People's objectivity is not to be trusted, not even scientists, not even a little.

Economics, sociology and such have shifted from one flavour of pseudoscience to another. Back in Popper's day, they would create big untestable "theories" that explained everything and nothing. Today, they make micro-theories after they analyze the data.

I think this may be peaking though. The way machines do "data analysis" is starting to shift the way we think on the margins. Machines make predictions, but not theories. They don't care which way causality runs.
It's still in beta, so it's not actually better yet. I tried it out for a week and it didn't work out. After about 30 minutes of streaming, my dropped frames went up to 90%, despite my connection being strong. OBS never had a problem with this.
We already shut down our entire civilization so that the healthcare status quo could be maintained and bills can keep getting sent to the correct address. How on earth is that pragmatic?

We could open up massive free clinics in every city tomorrow morning. Nothing is stopping us.
The feeling of being on-call is what sucks the soul from a worker's body. I've experienced it off and on over the last 20 years and IMHO it's one of the great problems of our time. I'd like to see labor move towards a direction more like Uber, where you decide when you're on the clock, and when you're off, you're off.

One of the difficulties though is that the Uber model only works for saturated and playbook industries like driving, delivering food, walking dogs, etc. It doesn't work so well for the decision-making tasks of more complex jobs where there are ramifications for every step:

https://blog.ycombinator.com/read-this-before-you-build-uber...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15150083
I disagree, not only is it not obvious - it's fairly obvious that he didn't mean that.

> the number of Mac users running 100% signed code is well over 50%

Would you say he meant "number of users running exclusively sandboxed code"? Or do you claim he means "number of users running 100% signed code outside the sandbox"? The only claim that would even make sense is "more than 50% of Mac users run exclusively sandboxed code". And it can't mean "app sandbox", but any kind of sandbox? Like, do java programs qualify? Is the JVM malware? If you install a signed app that requires the JRE, do you also install something that could run unsigned code?
This is really sick. Love it!

Although I would really love to see a more zero-parse binary format. At the end of the day simd, is just making markers in the original file of where an array begins, object begins, each of the object key value ranges e.t.c i.e the find marks -> build tape algorithm.

This could be achieved by having length prefixed values, kinda like flat buffers which is zero parse time, and much compact than json. https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/

I just wish json had a more universal alternative binary format which was insanely fast and compact to work with.

Protobufs are nice but parsing large files is still a pain and consumes a ton of memory. Ideally a format that could simply be lazy mmap-ed would be desirable.

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> The work is supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada under grant number RGPIN-2017-03910.

Well, thank you Canada!
@media queries based on browser width are especially bad. Unfortunately there is no css way for stylings dependent on the width of the _component_ itself.
thank you. what you said makes sense. job market seems to be down anyways. So might as well give this a shot.
I agree and thanks!
Verizon and Sprint didn't even have SIM cards for the longest time, so a Verizon phone and Sprint phone were always restricted to their networks.

As an international traveler, I've never even considered Verizon or Sprint as I would never be able to pop another SIM from a different country.
...and the movie with the most realistic portrayal for a post-apocalyptic world is "The Road"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898367/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
That is not the case. The T-mobile COO, Mike Sievert, will be taking over the combined company as part of a succession plan that's reportedly been in the works for awhile.
Force farms to implement social distancing. Just use a drone. Immediate shut down for noncompliance. Owner goes to jail, farm and equipment get seized nationalized and sold back to the public. Illegals get deported, legals get unemployment.

It takes everyone making sacrifices to stop the spread. Especially the landowners and leaders.
Keep an eye on the waypipe project for the equivalent functionality: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe/
The fiddling step was what I hoped to minimize. Did you have better luck with Linux or MacOS?
This is probably illegal retaliation. Organizing with coworkers about workplace conditions is a protected activity.
Regular 87-octane gasoline has dropped almost seventy cents per gallon in price in central Texas since this madness started. Oil producers in the state are getting squeezed hard right now.
Despite Sales, Borderlands 3 Developers Are Getting Stiffed on Bonuses
> If you look at how people act in work, family and love life, signalling explains 90% of it.

But it equally explains why I don't buy a car (because I want to signal that I'm not the sort of person who would) as much as explains why I do by a car (ditto). So of course it "explains" 90% of how people behave, but only after the fact. Which is suspicious.
> Watching West World on HBO I’m struck by how they’ve captured some of Crichton’s DNA in both the set design and the kind of hubris corporations have in his books.

Having read all of Crichton's books a well as West World: I think I agree with you.

If you have a few minutes, I wonder if you could cite a few examples, thanks!
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Medtronic is sharing its ventilator design specifications and code for free
"fair pay" -> well, let's start with "treated like human beings, not chattel", "afforded basic hygiene & health measures", "kept safe in a crisis".

From there, we get to "would you die without them? If yes, maybe they're underpaid. Maybe $18K a year just isn't fair pay under any circumstances, not if we can't force people via a "well, you could always die" clause.

As for the value they create - you have food available to you. How valuable is that to you? Would you like it if farm workers applied the "well, you could always die or do it yourself" clause?

Because at some point, that becomes an option.
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*you aren't risk for dying of coronavirus, but still at risk for spreading it.
Yes, XWayland is architecturally very similar to XQuartz.
> I think a key aspect of remote work being successful is for the distributed team to be in the same time zone or have less than 1 hour time difference

I think the exact time difference doesn't matter so much as everyone can be at work simultaneously at least 70/80% of the time.
I'm not saying we shouldn't take all precautions we can. I'm saying it's necessary work and some exposure needs to happen.
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Awesome to hear! scrcpy looks really cool, it Kinda makes me wish I still used an Android on the regular.
You're probably right that this is technically illegal, but talking to the media is a different action than organizing with coworkers...
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There's also this: "Many hospitals bar doctors and other staff members from wearing protective masks in public areas. Some have been disciplined for pushing back."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/health/hospitals-coronavi...

How do we put a swift end to this nonsense? Surely the public will be overwhelmingly on the side of doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers.
It's weird that if anyone's being fired it's the doctors - who needs them afterall !
Several vaccines are most effective when administered to infants. I'm not explaining to infants the benefits of herd immunity, I'm doing what's good for them as their parent.
Yup, or maybe it's the same "Global North" vs "Global South" thing where the rich countries of the world are predominantly in the temperate north. There's just not that much land in the temperate south.

In the middle you have the Caribbean/Northern Latin America, Central Africa and then like Indonesia out in Asia. A lot of warm, wet places with lots of history of malaria, other parasites, and terrible economic development.

What's interesting and cuts the other way right now is the small evidence that warmer and wetter makes COVID less infectious/effective. Have yet to see a good reason 'why' that's the case here, but it would be the first time you kinda want to be near the equator in order to avoid an infectious disease.
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Who gets to choose who gets sick first - do remember that in the US a farm worker getting sick might bankrupt them and kill them not because a hospital bed isn't available - but because they can't afford it or end up having a heart attack after dealing with the stress of those costs.

Additionally Covid-19 isn't super fatal, but it isn't just a get sick and whatever disease. Folks with health problems absolutely can die from this disease and it looks like healthy people can end up being saddled with respiratory issues like Pneumonia which is a bucket of fun for the rest of your life.

I don't think you were intentionally being insensitive in this manner (even barring your disclaimer your point is balanced and reasoned - it isn't unnecessarily cruel and has grains of truth). But do recall that this disease can be fatal or otherwise debilitating - I'd find it reasonable to treat essential workers, like these farm labourers, like we treat vets[1] give them life long coverage from the government for any complication resulting from their labour.

I don't want some farm worker who kept working through this to end up bankrolling Aetna.

1. At least, how we act like we treat them - America is pretty terrible to veterans.
Once you have existing code, the decision to break things is very hard. This exact history in early C is why even Java has an unintuitive precedence around & vs &&:

"After all, we had several hundred kilobytes of source code, and maybe 3 installations...."

https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/dmr-on-or.html
> and lower exposure.

Often, but not always and it also depends on the technology. Computed radiography got all the benefits of going digital, but allowed you to keep your X-ray equipment. Doses mostly went up. True digital requires new X-ray rooms and mostly reduced dose. However for this to occur it depends on the staff, as higher dose images look really nice (lower noise). There are also aspects of film radiography that have been very hard to achieve with digital. One that comes to mind is the examination of joints in rheumatology cases. The resolution of film screen systems is very hard to beat and small erosions are best seen with increased resolution.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3045190/#!po=1....
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You might enjoy Wait But Why's Religion for the Nonreligious post [1]. It gave structure to the thoughts I had for a long time.

I also say that my concept of God is explained in a Simpsons intro [2]. It is based on the Powers of Ten video [3], where the camera is looking down increasing its height exponentially. First at 1 meter, then 10, 100, 1000, and so on. By the end, after we pass by the planets, solar systems, galaxies, and on, we end up in Homer's bald head. In other words, we're all part of the same entity; just like the bacteria in our guts is part of us, we're part of what we call God. And Homer (aka God) is not alone, which fits nicely in the many universes theory.

Many religions came to this conclusion, but I'm yet to find a better way to explain it than that Simpsons intro.

[1] https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/10/religion-for-the-nonreligious...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEuEx1jnt0M
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0
>Just because Dish has the airwave rights doesn’t mean it will be used for personal mobile telephony

It certainly will be used for that, unless they've been lying to everyone: http://about.dish.com/2019-07-26-DISH-to-Become-National-Fac...
Verizon and Sprint were primarily built on CDMA networks, which generally didn't use SIM cards. They wouldn't work internationally largely because they were incompatible radios. The phones have the unique identifiers hardcoded into the phones, but could be added to a compatible carrier's network.

(Bear in mind, a SIM is really just a hardware manifestation of a unique identifier and some settings. It's not impossible to do these things entirely digitally, and now with eSIM, that is happening on GSM/LTE networks as well.)
T-Mobile spun out the phone+plan bundle. This is a good thing for customers. People like me who didn't need a phone still had to pay the built-in premium with plans and contracts. T-Mobile also got rid of contracts. They provide promos to get the same discount that contracts provided but it's opt-in.
Another terrific movie is "Warning Sign" (1985) starring Sam Waterston.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090293/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Not all conditions signify exceptional situations. The author conflated error with condition but you're doing the opposite of conflating condition with exception.

The big plus of the Common Lisp condition system is that it gives you a programmable substrate that you can use to implement a wide variety of signaling and control flow systems. It does give you error and exception handling -on top of the condition system- but that shouldn't shoehorn your thinking into just these problem domains.
Good luck. HIPAA will make that impossible.
No, some exposure does not need to happen.

You could bring in the harvest just fine without exposure. We're choosing not to, because it'd cost precious money, and that's the god we'd like to worship.

With the exact same kind of logic you use, one could also argue that it's not necessary work. Some starving just needs to happen. No? Not good logic? Then explain to me why your life matters more than farm worker lives?
FDA calls for heartburn drug Zantac to be pulled from market immediately
Things like "fair pay" and "living wage" are political talking points.

In short, what the living wage is really about is not living standards, or economics, but morality. Its advocates refuse to come to terms with the fact that wages are market price–determined by supply and demand, the same as the price of oil, steel, corn, or coal. And it is for that reason, rather than the practical details, that the broader political movement of which the demand for a living wage is the leading edge is ultimately doomed to failure: For the amorality of the market economy is part of its essence, and cannot be legislated away.